The Haryana Government has decided to obtain data from private hospitals which had been allotted land through agencies on concessional rates throughout the state on the condition of providing treatment to poor patient free of cost or on concessional rate.
The data would be used for health system planning and integrate efforts with healthcare provision of the state, said a spokesman of the Health Department. He said that the State Government had provided and allotted lands to various private hospitals through agencies like Haryana Urban Development Authority on concessional rates throughout the State.
One of the essential conditions of such allotments was provision of treatment of poor patient free of cost or on concessional rate. In some cases even reservation of few numbers of beds had been provided for BPl and poor patients, he added.
The spokesman said that therefore, all the civil surgeons in the state have been directed to obtain this information pertaining to their respective districts as to how many such concessional beds or quota is available in these private hospitals. They have also been directed to obtain last two years data of utilisation of these beds and quota so that the data could be used for better and effective delivery of healthcare system, he added.