Kolkata doctor, a CPI(M) member, cuts dialysis cost to Rs 50 amid COVID crisis
Kolkata doctor, a CPI(M) member, cuts dialysis cost to Rs 50 amid COVID crisis

Dr Fuad Halim, a practising doctor and CPI(M) member is doing dialysis procedure at Rs 50 amid COVID-19 pandemic.

To ease the tensions amid coronavirus crisis, he decided to cut the cost.

His dialysis centre is opened to people, mostly from an impoverished background.

He said, "Patients said commuting expense along with treatment fee, which was earlier Rs 350, was very expensive amid lockdown.

So we reduced dialysis fee to Rs 50."