survey conducted by the Assembly on registered medical facilities in the state out of which 370 were from the city.
survey conducted by the Assembly on registered medical facilities in the state out of which 370 were from the city.
"The survey was conducted on 942 nursing homes and 70 of them were served show-cause notices. Licences of 33 were cancelled. We have received complaints of negligence by the private hospitals and they were established," she said.
"Hospitals here are charging exorbitantly. Why will that happen? Treatment of patients is not a business. It cannot even try to derive full profit from it. You have to look at it from a humanitarian ground," she observed.
Emphasising that the health sector was there not to make profit, but to serve the people, the Chief Minister suggested to the hospital representatives to change their attitude regarding treatment of patients.
Bringing in transparency in the billing system and initiating a e-record and e-prescription for patients by private hospitals and nursing homes was a must and they should not refuse treatment to patients arriving in emergency units.
Hospital and nursing home authorities should not hold on to dead bodies of patients because bills were not settled, she said, adding that ventilation of a patient will be done following the protocol besides initiating a e-record of patients.
She also warned that child trafficking rackets would be finished and would not allow kidney-sale rackets to thrive in the state.
"Hospitals must follow the Organ Transplant Act. I am not going to allow any child trafficking racket or kidney-sale racket operate from here," she said.
She advised private hospitals and nursing homes to set up fair price medical stores as well as diagnostic centres to cater to people with poor economic background.
The chief minister disapproved of the tendency to destroy public and private properties during riots, unrest or violent political movements and referred the West Bengal Maintenance of Public order (amendment) Bill 2017 to deal with it.
She also said that people indulging in vandalism during riots or agitations would have to compensate for the damage to property.
The new law stipulates that persons committing arson, loot and damage to property will be liable for punishment and payment of compensation.
(This article has not been edited by DNA's editorial team and is auto-generated from an agency feed.)
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