{"id":54402,"date":"2016-05-03T14:14:35","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T21:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=54402"},"modified":"2016-05-03T14:14:35","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T21:14:35","slug":"vat-increase-and-the-plight-of-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/05\/03\/vat-increase-and-the-plight-of-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"VAT INCREASE AND THE PLIGHT OF PATIENTS ,,,,,,,,,,,"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath Obeysekera\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Today my wife who works in a private hospital came home disgruntled \u00a0and disappointed ,reason being the barrage of abuse from patients who have bitterly complained about rising of the charge to OPD treatment from 350 rs to a whapping increase of 75 Rupees !<\/p>\n<p>Cost of all tests such as X ray ,blood has the same fate and I am sure the whole country is cursing some one<\/p>\n<p>Isn\u2019t there any other way of scraping the kitties of richer people or politicians rather than these poor patients who prefer to come to a private hospital rather than waiting in queues in government hospitals ???<\/p>\n<p>Can the hospital owners reduce their profits and absorb the added VAT and provides release to the masses ?<\/p>\n<p>I feel so angry and helpless that we cannot do much to convince the law makers to do something else to generate income to cover debt burden ?<\/p>\n<p>VAT is the most hated word today among the people and the next phrase of words \u00a0preceding being  This lot has bungled up  and we are doomed !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera\u00a0 Today my wife who works in a private hospital came home disgruntled \u00a0and disappointed ,reason being the barrage of abuse from patients who have bitterly complained about rising of the charge to OPD treatment from 350 rs to a whapping increase of 75 Rupees ! Cost of all tests such as X [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}