Update on After State honours , Venkiah Naidu daughter paid SPB hospital bills -SPB Charan denies

 

On the issue regarding VP Venkaiah daughter clearing SPB hospital dues, Charan said that it was true that he had asked the State Health secretary to help him financially to clear the bills. It was 15 days before the death of his father's death ,he added.  He had come with the money to clear the final bill but the hospital told him to not pay anything else further . The hospital gave a NOC to conduct the funeral after they declared SPB Covid free. He denied that the hospital had asked him to pay the money to take the body of  his father. MGM hospital doctors took only medical related questions at  the media meet and left questions as to why a corporate hospital would forego a huge amount ?. When grilled further about billing details , Charan said that it was issue involving financial dealings and it needed to be kept confidential. Later he lost his cool and  asked why the reporter was keeping on asking details about the billing and nothing else. He  did not  give answer on whether it was over billed or not and vaguely replied that the cost depended on the treatment methods. Charan said that as his father showed signs of recovery, he felt that a continued stay would help. At the last moment however the lungs ollapsed, according to the hospital. He said that he had with held the news that his father was given a tracheotomy to enable him to eat as it would bring panic to his fans as they would fear that he might not sing. 

Coming close on the story that it was the nudge from Venkiah Naidu that the State Government accorded him a State funeral with 21 gun salute, a WhatsApp message got circulated saying that State Government and many Telugu organisations in India and abroad looked the other way when the MGM Health Care wanted SPB family to clear the Rs 1.38 cr pending bill before taking the body.  It was Deepa Venkat, daughter of VP on request from Charan ,who cleared the bills. The rumour about the bill was in circulation in the morning of  SPB death. Many claimed that the singer was dead but the hospital was delaying the official news as `some formality' had to be cleared. The tweet - 

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Who helped the family of SPB to get the mortal remains, nobody from the Tamil Or Telugu film industry or the state governments but VP Venkiah Naidu, whose daughter went and paid the bill. Salute you Sir. A friend in need is a friend indeed.

 Dismissing rumors that Vice President Venkaiah Naidu had paid the hospital bills of late singer S P Balasubrahmanyam during his last days, the artiste’s family Sunday said such claims were “offensive” and hurtful. . Deepa Venkat termed it as factually incorrect. Charan  hinted that the person behind the rumour was known to him and added that "SPB was a person who would have forgiven this person who spread this rumour,” A senior doctor in MGM Healthcare said several individuals and groups had volunteered to pay the singer’s bills — including his fans and Tamil groups in Tokyo, London and Paris. “There were many more individuals from Tamil Nadu who volunteered to do the same as the hospital stay was long. But some doctors who treated him had decided to not charge any fee for the legendary musician’s treatment. The management also had taken a similar decision in my knowledge,” the doctor said. Sources said that MGM had even outsourced some equipment from Apollo Hospital.

Sources said the family had paid a certain sum after the first 15 days of Balasubrahmanyam’s treatment and the remaining amount wasn’t accepted by the hospital out of respect for the late singer.A member of MGM Healthcare’s Board refused to comment on the management’s decision to not accept pending bills.“Patient confidentiality is very important. Only thing I want to clarify is we were accountable to his family alone — his son and daughter. Nobody else,” he added. “But let me tell you, whatever (rumours) people are putting out are unfortunate and distasteful. This was not the time for that. We are Tamil people, we are much bigger fans of SPB (as the singer was known fondly among fans) than anyone else. We don’t need a single rupee from them,” the Board member further said.

When SPB was in hospital, his publicist said that COVID 19 test was negative but his son Charan denied it. Charan in defense says that the Hospital told him that if the news came out and SPB did not return home, they might face a lawsuit. However on Sept 25th, PRO Nikil Murugan put out a MGM official note that the singer was tested negative before death. If this note had not come the funeral would have been a closed door affair. Charan says that the health and police officials gave him permission to keep the body overnight at the house. As crowds grew, the neighbours faced trouble from visitors who jumped over their compund walls and damaged the property. The police then asked Charan to take the body to the farm house.