Pay your bills to get discharged from the hospital,” is Bombay Hospital’s final verdict to a patient who is a farmer and is unable to pay his bills which amount up to Rs 7 lakh.

After 72 year-old Durgadas Rathod, a poor farmer from Washim district in Vidharba in Maharashtra, was detected with brain tumour earlier this year, his son Avinash got him admitted to Bombay Hospital on May 31. However, even after a successful surgery, Durgadas continues to stay in the general ward of the hospital because he is unable to pay his hospital bills. Avinash expected that the bill would be around Rs two lakh, not Rs 7 lakh.