The Goa government on Friday announced that they will start charging nominal fee for the patients who are non-residence of the state at the government hospitals from January 1, while locals will continue getting free of cost treatment. State Health Minister Vishwajit Rane told reporters that the state-run facilities including Goa Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) will charge nominal fee for the patients who are from outside Goa from January 1, 2018. He said the patients from outside Goa would be charged twenty percent of the fee as prescribed in the state's 'Deen Dayal Swastha Seva Yojana (DDSSY)' charged by 'C' category hospitals, which comes to a nominal amount.

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