Following mid-day’s report about private ambulance services overcharging the kin of Covid-19 victims, Health Minister Rajesh Tope said that the government will probe the matter. mid-day had reported on how private ambulance operators have been profiteering by charging three to four times the government-approved rates.

MID-DAY posed as relatives of patients who died of Covid-19 and found that operators are charging more than Rs 2,500 for just a couple of kilometres. In some cases, the prices went up to Rs 5,000-Rs 6,000. mid-day asked Tope about the exploitation at his government residence on Friday, to which he replied, “We will investigate it.”