The Lok Satta Udyama Samstha has urged Karimnagar MP and Chairman of District Vigilance and Monitoring Committee B. Vinod Kumar, to ensure the inspection of facilities in all private hospitals in the district.
A resolution was passed at the last vigilance and monitoring committee meeting held on February 27, 2016 to inspect all the private hospital to ensure that they have all facilities required for providing proper treatment to the patients. Accordingly, Collector Neetu Prasad had constituted a committee comprising a doctor from District Medical and Health Department, a tahsildar, a sub-inspector of police, a representative from consumer forum, a doctor from IMA and a representative from a voluntary organisation.
Panel given power
The committee was given the powers to inspect the educational qualifications of doctors, MCI and State Council registrations, pollution and fire certificates, list of equipments and furniture, staff particulars, parking area and floor plan, among others.
Further, the committee was asked to inspect all the private hospitals in Karimnagar, Godavarikhani, Jagtial, Metpally, Korutla, Sircilla, Vemulawada, Husnabad, Peddapalli and Jammikunta towns and submit a report within one month.
Political hurdles
In a press note here on Monday, Lok Satta district president N. Srinivas and general secretary Prakash Holla said that the district administration had constituted committees only in Jagtial, Godavarikhani and Huzurabad and inspected hardly 10 % of the hospitals.
The private hospitals brought political pressure on the district administration and stopped the formation of a committee and inspection of hospitals in Karimnagar town, they said.
The private hospitals were fleecing gullible rural masses and bringing disrepute to the noble profession, they said and urged the government to check unethical practice of medical profession of using registered medical practitioners as agents for the mobilization of patients for treatment and conduct of hysterectomy and appendicitis surgeries without any reason.
