Hyderabad: A day after Virinchi Hospital’s permission to treat COVID-19 patients was revoked, the state government on Saturday also barred five more
Hyderabad: A day after Virinchi Hospital’s permission to treat COVID-19 patients was revoked, the state government on Saturday also barred five more private hospitals from admitting COVID-19 patients based on complaints from the public. So far the Telangana State Public Health and Family Welfare department’s director has taken the same action against 10 health care centres in Hyderabad. According to a statement from Dr. G. Srinivasa Rao, director, Public Health and Family Welfare department, the five hospitals whose permission was revoked on Saturday are: Image Hospital (Ameerpet), Ankura Hospita (LB Nagar), Sia Life Hospital (Kondapur), Panchavati Hospital (Bhoothpur, Mahbubnagar) and Sai Siddartha Hospita (Shapur Nagar, Sanga Reddy). The action taken against these hospitals was primarily with regard to complaints of excess and irrelevant charges in addition to the prescribed norms, mismanagement and lack of proper attention with regard to treating COVID-19 patients. The department has so far received a total of 115 complaints at different dates from the public which has led to the state government also issuing show cause notices to 79 hospitals.
