The Directorate General Of Health Services, Delhi has issued a show-cause notice to Sir Ganga Ram Hospital. The show-cause notice was issued after the DGHS found the hospital’s replies to their questions to not be satisfactory. The Delhi DGHS invoked Clause 14.1 of the Schedule appended to Rule 14 of Delhi Nursing Homes Registration (Amendment) Rules, 2011.
AAP MLA from Karol Bagh Vishesh Ravi had been pursuing this matter with the DGHS since years, writing letters and highlighting the gross violations of the EWS norms by the hospital like Non-admission of EWS patients even when 95% out of 68 beds reserved for EWS patients were lying vacant, No grant of power/permission to the Govt. Liaison officer to manage the affairs pertaining to EWS patients at the hospital, Non-treatment of EWS category patients at the hospital (poor treatment of EWS patients if treated at all), multiple unnecessarily hurdles faced by the EWS patients for the EWS card renewal, Merging of the Hospital’s charitable trust’s patients with EWS category to refuse treatment to eligible EWS patients, Refusal of treatment to EWS category patients citing COVID-19 as an excuse.
He said that this strictly emphasises that the hospital has shown dereliction of its responsibility towards EWS patients by not complying with DGHS guidelines on treating EWS patients.
MLA Vishesh Ravi said that the Hospital should not look down upon any EWS category patient and the issuance of show-cause notice to Sir Ganga Ram Hospital should act as a deterrent for the other private Hospitals who show discrimination in the treatment of EWS patients.
