The Bombay High Court directed the State government to find out if nursing homes are functioning with licences.
A Division Bench of Chief Justice Manjula Chellur and Justice G.S. Kulkarni was hearing a public interest litigation filed by Atul Bhosale, a Pune resident whose father died at a nursing home after a wrong treatment. He said that he later learnt that the doctor had failed in his exam for the degree and despite that was running a nursing home. He urged the court to enforce the Maharashtra Nursing Homes Registration Act.
The PIL relies upon a RTI query that found only 326 of the 4,500 hospitals or clinics in Pune are registered. The court also questioned the delay in implementing The Clinical Establishments (Registration and Regulation) Act, which came into force on August 19, 2010.
The court has asked the authorities to file a reply in four weeks.
