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Private Mumbai hospitals refuse to accept old currency
Updated On: 11 November, 2016 08:00 AM IST | | Rupsa Chakraborty
<p>From a 70-year-old woman to an eight-year-old girl, patients and their families at Mumbai hospitals are reeling under the cash crisis</p>

Private Mumbai hospitals refuse to accept old currency
Rekha Arao and her husband
Ulhasnagar resident Rekha Arao is another victim of the demonetisation and it’s after-effects in medical institutions. Although the government has ordered a 72-hour relaxation for use of old denomination notes in hospitals, Rekha’s hopes to bring her mother home on Wednesday was crushed by to Bombay Hospital authorities who refused to discharge the 70-year-old until Rekha paid for the treatment in Rs 100 denominations or through card.
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