Postal staff providing new currency notes to patients at a hospital in Delhi. 

New Delhi: Postal department officials have started visiting hospitals across the city to help patients and their attendants to exchange old high-value currency notes for new ones in the wake of miseries mounting for patients and their attendants following demonetisation. So far, nearly Rs 25 lakh have been exchanged by them at the hospitals. The postal teams are visiting hospital wards offering lower denomination currency notes to patients and their family. Many of them are not able to procure cash from the overcrowded banks and ATMs in the city,” chief postmaster general (Delhi circle), L.N. Sharma said. He said several teams have been formed to visit the hospitals.//pti//