GST on Covid Medicine.

 

Most of the developed nation is providing all kinds of assistance to their citizen during this pandemic.  The government is providing all kinds of medical assistance to their citizen free of cost during their hard time.   The Indians cannot dream of such privileges. Further, due to inappropriate usage of political & influential people, the country already facing a shortage of Oxygen, beds in Hospitals, life-saving drugs, etc. The situation has now become so worsen that for sick people it is difficult to get their RT-PCR test. Patients have to first wait for 2-3 days to get their test done and then wait for another 4-5 days to get the report of their test. Hence, by the time patient gets the outcome of the report, his case may be severe due to delay in getting the report.  Thus, there is a situation of national emergency where we can see the country's medical infrastructure has been collapsed and the government became a silent audience.  The insurance companies further worsen the situation by denying the medical expenses incurred for home isolation. The insurance companies are taking the advantage of the situation of shortage of beds for the covid patients.  Thus, in a hard time, the citizen of the country has to arrange of all means of treatment of their own and with almost no source of income due to lockdowns. 

Thus citizens of our country are having a hard time and also paying GST when they are purchasing medicines for their treatment. Right now almost all members of the family get affected due to the virus and thus they are having a big medical bill with GST. Hence we can conclude that the rise in the case of infection in the country is also increasing the GST collection on Covid medicines.

The government must look into this and must admit that they had failed to control the situation in the country and accordingly, issue the order of not charging GST on covid medicines. This will give some financial assistance to the families whose members are suffering from the Pandemic.