India, April 8 -- The Jan Arogya Abhiyan (JAA) - a coalition of NGOs and healthcare professionals advocating patients' rights and improvement in public healthcare in the state - has called for sweeping changes in Maharashtra's private healthcare sector and issued a set of recommendations to prevent deaths like that of 26-year-old Tanisha Bhise in Pune, after she was denied emergency treatment at the Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital (DMH) recently. The network has asked for a legal ban on demands for advance payment during emergencies, strict enforcement of free and concessional beds in charitable hospitals, mandatory display of patient rights and service rates, operational grievance redressal cells, and regulation of charges levied on patien...