Under the Nursing Home Act, inspection of all private hospitals in the city and district will be carried out after the formation the new cabinet which is likely early next week, official sources said on Friday.
At present, applications have been invited from all the hospitals for licence. After checking staff, building and other facilities hospitals will be issued lincences. Health officers said that they were waiting for further instructions. Complaints of charging of more money from patients are piling up. The Government has brought the Nursing Home Act to prevent the arbitrary attitude of the private hospitals. District health department had sought application from the private hospitals and told them that they would be issued licences after checking.
It is said that after the instructions private hospital have submitted applications online one-by-one. 925 applications have been received by the health department till the appointed date. Further work will be carried out in keeping with instructions from the new Health Minister. At present applications and checking files of private hospitals are pending.
CMHO Dr KR Sonwani said that his team is ready to check all big and small private hospitals under the Narsing Home Act. Senior officers are waiting for appointing of new health Minister. Inspection work may take at least a week’s time. He said many private hospitals are facing shortage of building and staff. At many place there are not enough facilities for checking. Government welfare schemes are not reaching out to people and quacks are fleecing patients in rural areas. He said hospitals sticking to all norms of facilities would be issued licences under the Nursing Home Act. The remaining hospitals would get time to set things in order.