The Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) is mulling action against around 250 illegal health clinics and hospitals running without valid documents and flouting health norms of the Haryana Municipal Corporation act 1994.
The MCG is preparing a list of such establishments.
The MCG officials said they would initiate the process to seal the illegal clinics and hospitals. The MCG has sent legal notices to 74 hospitals and clinics.
As per the MCG guidelines, the parking space for four wheelers at the nursing homes and hospitals should exceed the number of beds. There should also be a 12 metre wide road in front of these establishments and the building space should be 350 square yards.
“We well check accordingly how many nursing homes and hospitals are following our health norms. We have sent several notices to these establishments who are not following our norms but they didn’t reply. We will take strict action against them,” Senior Town Planner of MCG, Sudhir Chauhan said.
Sources said most of these organisations continue to be in business despite the expiry of their licences long ago. In certain cases, the licences have been cancelled. Most of these have been categorised as “not valid” as they failed to fulfil the set parameters.
According to the officials, every clinic and hospital should follow the requirements in relation to location, accommodation, equipment and personnel. The civic body has issued an order to the officials to seal these establishments that do not possess permissions.
“As the number of such violators is high, we are moving against them in a planned way. Otherwise, there would be panic among patients. We hope that after such raids, other violators will soon follow the health norms,” a senior official said.
Sources said that while establishments with five to nine beds are supposed to pay Rs 5,000 as registration fee, those having 10 to 14 beds have to pay Rs 6,000, and the ones with 15 to 24 beds have to pay Rs 8,000. Nursing homes with 25 or more beds are required to pay Rs 10,000.
For renewing the licences, they also have to pay the same fees. The owners of these clinics are supposed to get a clearance certificate from the State Pollution Control Board for disposal of their biomedical waste under Biomedical Waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 1990, prior to grant of registration or renewal certificate, an official added.