NEW DELHI (NNN-PTI): The Supreme Court on Thursday asked all private hospitals in Delhi to earmark 25% of their out-patient department capacity and 10% in-patient department capacity for free treatment of poor and directed the Delhi government to discuss with hospitals to evolve a guideline on high-cost health care.
When a bench comprising Justices R V Raveedran and A K Patnaik was highly critical of the Delhi government for not holding meaningful discussions with the private hospitals on free treatment of poor patients, Dr R N Das of the directorate of health services stood up and answered each query.
He said that of the 40 identified multi-specialty hospitals in Delhi, 27 are extending free treatment to poor as per the Delhi High Court's direction. Three had claimed that they did not get land at concessional rate and hence were not obliged to extend free treatment to poor. -NNN-PTI
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