BBMP issues notice to seven hospitals in Bengaluru over non-compliance of order for reserving beds

Bengaluru, October 31: Taking exemplary action against seven hospitals in Bengaluru, Local Municipal body BBMP issued notices against them for not allocating the mandated 50% of beds for COVID-19 patients referred by the government.

 

 

Commissioner Manjunath Prasad added. "Today (Saturday), show cause notices have been issued to the following seven hospitals under the KPME Act for suspension of licenses. These hospitals have been directed to show cause within the next 24 hours as to why the KPME registration licenses should not be canceled."

 

The seven hospitals that were found not complying with the direction of BBMP are Artyem Hospital, Rangadorai Memorial Hospital, Sanjeevani Hospital, Dr. GVG Healthcare Pvt Ltd, Srinivas Hospital, Medstar Hospital, and Nandana Healthcare Services India Ltd.

 

These hospitals have been directed to show cause within the next 24 hours as to why the KPME registration licenses should not be canceled

 

Prasad further added, "If no proper explanation is received within 24 hours along with compliance of reserving 50% beds for BBMP sponsored COVID patients, the BBMP will be constrained to close down the OPDs at the first instance and thereafter all the existing patients admitted in these hospitals will be shifted to some other alternate hospitals and subsequently these hospitals will be closed down".

 

In the notices issued to the hospitals, the BBMP said that they had not updated the information portal with details about the patients referred by the BBMP and patients in the private category. The Suvarna Arogya Suraksha Trust, which enforced the government order in June and also reimburses hospitals for bills incurred on behalf of the government, had conducted inspections recently and found that the hospitals were violating the norms.

 

Earlier, the BBMP had issued an order directing private medical establishments in the city to reserve 50 percent beds in each category including general wards, HDU, ICU, and ICU with ventilators, for the treatment of patients referred by the public health authorities.