The law is known as Telangana Clinical Establishments (Registering and Regulation) Act after it came into force in June 2022. The state informed this to a bench of Chief Justice Ujjal Bhuyan and Justice N Tukaramji that was hearing a PIL filed by Vijay Gopal of Forum Against Corruption, an NGO, questioning the inaction of the state in adopting the central law.
The government does not hear service providers’ views while implementing these schemes. Hospitals incur losses because of the low rates.
AMRI Hospitals, which is now in the final stages of a merger-acquisition process that will make it a part of a national chain, has seen a 45 per cent rise in revenue in 2022-23 from 2019-20. A number of factors have contributed to higher occupancy, leading to a revenue swell post
Major private hospital chains, including Fortis Healthcare and Apollo Hospitals, have bounced back with a robust 23% revenue growth year on year (YoY), driven by higher surgeries and occupancy, after the threat of Covid dissipated over the past few months. Once the pandemic struck in 2020, hospitals were impacted due to deferment of elective procedures, lower occupancy and absence of medical tourism.
On June 20, 2022, RSHAA had issued an order that mentioned that hospitals already empanelled under the scheme but do not have 30 beds will have to upgrade their facilities to 30 beds before June 1, 2023, to stay eligible for empanelment under the scheme.
Even though the number of COVID admissions has come down to a trickle, some elderly patients are still admitted for non-COVID ailments who also happen to be 'incidental COVIDs', preventing the latter from shutting down isolation units. The units cant be closed down completely till the number of COVID positives turn zero, some hospitals say.
In private hospitals, these treatments are expensive and poor couples cannot afford them as they cost over a lakh of rupees to complete just one course of treatment. Studies have shown that infertility is rising among men and women of all economic classes.
The tally of dengue cases in the Indore district still stood at zero because of the non-reporting of cases.
After internal meetings, the state government will consider suggestions of other stakeholders. Rules are important for effective implementation of the Act. Since private hospitals and the state had signed MoU to end the protest by private hospitals, the conditions in MoU also need to be fulfilled.
In contrast, 65 per cent of government beds are in tertiary-care hospitals with over 500 beds each and 31 per cent in large hospitals with 101 to 500 beds each. In comparison, just 9 per cent of private beds are in hospitals with more than 500 beds each and about 34 per cent in 101-500-bed hospitals. Not surprisingly then, though there are only about 60 government hospitals in Delhi, they account for over 23,700 beds, not far behind the 26,405 beds that 1,011 private hospitals account for.
The protest is likely to affect outpatient services and other essential hospital work. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Tuesday night held a meeting with the district collectors and divisional commissioners over the impending strike and directed them to ensure the smooth operation of medical facilities in the state, said officials. After the meeting, Chouhan said in a statement, "Health services are essential services.
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