New methods would be adopted for the inspection of private hospital and nursing homes and it would be completed in next two months, officials sources said on Friday.
The local administration has decided to adopt a new method to conduct the inspection after it received a reprimand by the Health Department.The officials said the administration will set up a new team which will inspect the hospitals and identify quacks and submit a report to the district collector.
It was told that Raipur district has 935 nursing homes and big hospitals of which the administration has already inspected 300 of them during the last two months. The administration has however not yet been able to inspect the remaining hospitals and about 1300 quacks , it was learnt. Health Department Director Dr Kamalpreet Singh and Commissioner Pratap Singh have expressed their displeasure with the slow progress and asked the administration to complete the investigation as early as possible and submit their report.
Sources said the administration will intensify the inspection process and submit its report some time after May 20. The Chief Medical Officer Dr K.R.Sonwani said the inspection was on to insect the nursing homes and hospital under the Nursing Home Act. The report would be submitted to the district collector and next course of action would be decided on his instruction. On the basis of the inspection, the hospitals and nursing homes would be registered and given licenses.