The COVID-19 epidemic has highlighted India's

societal disparities, as well as the enormous

differences in the country's industries on
everything from employment prospects to health
treatment.
While the Indian government talks of providing
equitable and appropriate healthcare to all during
COVID-19, situations throughout the country
suggest otherwise. While India's authorities have
promised coronavirus testing and care for
individuals in need, treatment choices are as
stratified and uneven as the country itself.
Depending on their income, every patient in India's
public hospitals would be able to get either free or
subsidized by the government care under the
nation's healthcare system. However, the initiative
was severely underfunded, forcing government
hospitals to become overburdened and patients to
frequently endure day-long waits for even the most
basic services.
A small indoor emergency triage area had been
converted into a crowded waiting room for
confirmed COVID-19 cases.
The daily rates for coronavirus treatment in
India’s biggest private hospital chains range from
about 25,000 rupees ($333) for a bed in the general
ward to 72,000 rupees ($960) for a bed in the ICU
with a ventilator, under-privileged citizens who are
in desperate need of such facilities cannot afford
charges as such while on the other hand, people
from the privileged class can easily access those
facilities. For instance, as stated in the
HINDUSTAN TIMES, a personal trainer who
fears he has the coronavirus, Manoj Kumar was
lined up outside another public hospital just
waiting to get in. He said he saw some people give
the guards money in order to skip the line.
The case of Delhi state’s health minister,
Satyendar Jain, he who checked into a
government-run hospital after testing positive for
COVID-19,transferred to a private hospital when
his condition became critical. This “could mean”
that the official was well aware of the lack of
supplies in government-run hospitals and hence
transferred to a private hospital to receive better
treatment.