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CHENNAI: Dr. Cherian’s Frontier Lifeline Hospital here on Saturday reached an agreement with a visiting Guyanese group over the payment of dues and allowed the discharge of children who had been admitted for heart surgery. Hospital founder K.M. Cherian said during discussions with Varshinie Singh, a former First Lady of Guyana, that she had promised to pay within six months the outstanding amount of $91,000 [about Rs. 43.9 lakh], the cost incurred on surgical procedures during her current visit. The team had been asked to pay the expenses incurred on food, lodging and transportation during their stay at the hospital before leaving. Ms. Singh said that she had paid just under $10,000 as settlement for non-medical expenses. She was trying, with the help of the hospital, to accommodate the children on an Air India flight to London, so that they would be on time for a fund raising event there. “We are hopeful of repaying the hospital in six months.” “We bear the hospital no ill-will, but we are very saddened that this happened to us. Had they informed us earlier that we needed to pay an advance, we would have fund-raised that as well,” she said. “Our arrangement has never been to pay in advance. We always go back and pay them,” she added. Dr. Cherian said that the hospital had communicated the need to pay an advance for the procedures early on. It had written off $50,000 due from these people for surgeries performed during five other trips in the past. “This is because they had expressed inability to pay that amount. So we were worried that we will not be paid for our services this time, too. Already, we are offering services at concessional rates to the patients. No hospital can afford to write off several thousands of dollars regularly,” Dr. Cherian added.
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