HC Notice to Telangana, Centre on Private Hospitals Charges

HC Notice to Telangana, Centre on Private Hospitals Charges

A day after directing the state to ensure 

Strict implemention of ICMR guidelines to tackle the pandemic effectively, the High court on Wednesday issued notices to Telngana Centre, ICMR, IRDA and drug control authorities for inaction on private hospitals.

The court asked them to respond to a petitioner for failing to act against private hospitals charging exorbitantly from Covid-19 patients. Petitioner J Venudhar Reddy a resident of Nagole, said the common man was being hit on two counts — one, these hospitals were crippling the common man with high rates and secondly, lack of insurance and spurious drugs Assuring the petitioner that the government had promised to come out with a GO to rein in the private hospitals, a bench of Chief Justice Raghvendra Singh Chauhan and Justice B Vijaysen Reddy said this petition should be clubbed with a batch of Covid-related PILs and posted the case to August 13.