Delhi's Max Hospital has
resumed operations days after its licences was cancelled by
the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), say media reports. The
hospital in a statement said that a stay order has been issued by the
appellate authority — the office of the Financial Commissioner SS Yadav — in
the matter and that they were committed to providing quality healthcare to
their patients.
Further, when the
cancellation was criticisedChief Minister
Arvind Kejriwal had defended the order,
saying, "Delhi government is not against private hospitals and is
fully aware of their importance.
But Max Hospital left us with no option other
than to take action. This is not happened first time. Such kind of erroneous
act was done by the hospital on many occasions in the past too."
It had been reported last
week that the hospital had moved a "government authority"
against the cancellation of its licence. A spokesperson of the Max
Healthcare, when asked to elaborate about the appropriate authority approached,
had said, "It is not a court authority but a government authority. And,
the appeal was filed today."
However,
while the hospital had declined to share details on the appropriate government
authority approached by them, Delhi High Court advocate Ashok Agarwal had
claimed that in such cases, "the appellate authority is the
Lieutenant Governor's office."
"As
per the Delhi Nursing Homes Registration Act, 1953, in cases related to
cancellation of licence, the appellate authority is the L-G office,"
Agarwal, also a member of the Delhi High Court-appointed EWS Monitoring
Committee for hospitals, said.
The Max
Hospital case pertains to one of the premature twins, wrongly declared dead on
30 November at the hospital where he was born, and who died during treatment at
a nursing home in Pitampura a week later.
Both
the babies were declared stillborn by the hospital and handed over to the
family allegedly in a polythene bag. But to their utter horror, they found that
the boy was still alive, while they were on way to do their final rites.
Harminder singh kitty
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