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SC notice to hospitals on free care

-The Telegraph

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has sought the response of two private hospitals in the capital on a Delhi government appeal against a high court order that they were not obliged to provide free treatment to economically weaker sections.

An apex court bench of Justices Ranjan Gogoi and Arun Mishra sought the response from Sitaram Bhartia and Rockland Hospital in six weeks on the state government's contention that 25 per cent of their OPD (outpatient department) and 10 per cent of the IPD (in-patient department) must be set aside for free treatment to the poor.

The obligation was imposed as the two hospitals, like several others, were built on land obtained at concessional rates from the government.

The Delhi government has questioned the high court's March 2014 order that unlike various other private hospitals given such land, Sitaram Bhartia, Rockland and two others - St. Stephen's Hospital and Moolchand Khairati - were not obliged to offer free services as such a clause was not part of their lease agreement with the government.

In its appeal, the Delhi government has argued that the high court had passed the order despite an apex court ruling of September 2011 that city private hospitals which had obtained land at concessional rates were obliged to provide free facilities to the poor.