New Delhi: In a setback to poor patients, the Delhi High Court yesterday exempted city’s four big private hospitals from the “mandatory obligation” to provide free treatment to certain percentage of poor patients.
Saying such mandatory requirement was “not provided in their lease deed”, a division bench of Justice S Ravindra Bhat and Justice R V Easwar allowed the pleas of the hospitals challenging the federal government’s order of incorporating a condition inserted in its lease deed for free treatment to the poor. The government had made it mandatory for private hospitals, built on land allocated by the government on concessional rates, to provide 10pc treatment to poor people in the in-patient department (IPD) and 25pc in the out-patient department (OPD).
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