If poor not provided treatment, will ask AIIMS to take over: Supreme Court tells Apollo Hospital, orders scrutiny-What about other Super speciality hospitals My Lord?
If poor not provided treatment, will ask AIIMS to take
over: Supreme Court tells Apollo Hospital, orders scrutiny
The apex court has asked the government to inspect
Apollo Hospital's records for the last five years to find out whether it had
fulfilled its commitment to provide free treatment.
The Supreme Court gave
liberty to the hospital administration to file its affidavit.
The Supreme Court on
Tuesday said if poor people are not provided free treatment at Indraprastha
Apollo Hospital, it will ask the All India Institute of Medical Sciences
(AIIMS) to take it over and ordered the Centre and Delhi government to send a
joint team to inspect its records.
The apex court has asked
the government to inspect Apollo Hospital's records for the last five years to
find out whether it had fulfilled its commitment to provide free treatment to
30% indoor and 40% outdoor patients as per the 1994 lease agreement, according
to a Times of India report.
A bench of Justices Surya
Kant and N Kotiswar Singh took serious note of alleged violation of lease
agreement under which the hospital run by Indraprastha Medical Corporation
Limited (IMCL) was to provide free medical and other facilities to poor patients
without any discrimination.
"If we find out that
poor people are not provided free treatment, we will hand over the hospital to
AIIMS," the bench said, PTI reported.
March 26, 2025 / 09:10 IST
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