Newborn Baby Passed Away Because Hospital Refused To Take Rs 500 Notes

The side effects of the ban on currency denominations of INR 500 and INR 1000 has costed more to the people with legal money than the ones with black money.
While it was only a concern of money loss for the rich and corrupt people, the poor ones had to sacrifice their daily needs and even life in some cases.


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Yesterday a newborn baby boy died because the hospital denied to take a part of the payment in the form of the banned denominations. Ironically the medical outlets and hospitals all over the nation were strictly instructed to accept these denominations.

Kiran , the mother of deceased kid went into labor on 9th November and was admitted in Jeevan Jyoti hospital. The family submitted the money they had but when they were left with only 500 note denominations, the hospital refused further treatment.

The deceased boy is perhaps the youngest victim of this currency ban in India. The government has to take a serious step to help the lower status people of the country at this crucial time.


The least it is ought to do is to provide strict and fexible medical treatment to people in emergency immediately. The number of negative effects is increasing daily which is taking the original motive of the movement away from the public.
Something has to be done to prevent these loop holes from being exploited by the black money holders due to which the poor ones are suffering distinctly