{
  "id": 8437294,
  "title": "Pune: Patients’ Rights Council Demands Healthcare Reforms, Gives Government 90-Day Deadline Or Threatens Statewide Agitation",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/19/pune-patients-rights-council-demands-healthcare-reforms-gives",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-09-19T09:34:15.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/pune/pune-patients-rights-council-demands-healthcare-reforms-gives-government-90-day-deadline-or-threatens-statewide-agitation"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Pune: The Patients’ Rights Council on Saturday demanded urgent reforms to make hospital treatment more transparent and financially accessible, alleging that patients and their families are often pushed into severe financial distress due to rising treatment costs, unclear billing and high prices of medicines and medical consumables. Addressing a press conference in Pune, Patients’ Rights Council…",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}