Stop price tagging human lives

In a morally corrupt state, the onus to remain alive is on the citizens themselves.

The Covid-19 pandemic has been a windfall for private hospitals across Nepal, as they are free to demand exorbitant deposits and charge insanely high fees for the treatment of coronavirus patients. As the Post reported on Sunday, a patient's family was asked by the Biratnagar-based Nobel Medical College Teaching Hospital to deposit Rs100,000 in advance in order to get admission. Having failed to pay the deposit amount, the family took the patient home. The sufferer committed suicide that night itself. Consider the humiliation and inhumanity the patient must have faced before coming to the conclusion that life wasn't worth living anymore.