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Supreme Court: The Supreme Court on February 27 expressed displeasure over the arbitrary amount charged by private hospitals. The court took strong exception to the Centre’s inability to implement the 14-year-old ‘Clinical Establishment (Central Government)’ rules. Under the rules, it is mandatory to issue notification of a standard rate for treatment and cure of diseases in metropolitan cities, cities and towns after consultation with the states.
According to Times of India, during the hearing, the government told the court that it has repeatedly written to the states on this issue, but no response has been received from them. The court said that citizens have a fundamental right to health care and the Center cannot escape its responsibility. The court asked the Union Health Secretary to hold a meeting with the health secretaries of the states to issue the notification of standard rates within a month.
SC talked about implementing CGSH
The Supreme Court warned, ‘If the Central Government fails to find a solution to this problem, we will consider the petitioner’s plea to implement the CGSH-determined standard rate for the treatment of patients across the country.’ Actually, healthcare is one of the most important aspects for every citizen. But it is often seen that arbitrary fees are charged in private hospitals, due to which patients face problems.
Who filed the petition?
Actually, NGO ‘Veterans Forum for Transparency in Public Life’ filed a PIL through lawyer Danish Zubair Khan. In this, a demand was made to direct the Center to determine the rate of fees charged from patients in terms of Rule 9 of the ‘Clinical Establishment (Central Government) Rules, 2012’. Under this rule, all hospitals will have to give information about their service charges in the local language as well as in English.
