Define mode of determining fine on hospitals: HC asks AAP govt
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New Delhi : The Delhi High Court today asked the AAP government what would be the mode of determining penalty to be imposed on a private hospital which allegedly refuses to provide free treatment to poor patients as required under its land allotment lease condition.
"Who will determine? What will be mode of determination," Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva asked while hearing a plea of Fortis Escorts Heart Institute here which has been slapped with a fine of over Rs 100 crore for allegedly refusing to provide free treatment to poor patients.
The court raised the query as the Delhi government did not place before it the original records of a meeting held on December 10 last year on the basis of which it had purportedly arrived at the amount.
Besides Fortis, the Delhi government had asked four other Delhi-based private hospitals -- Max Super Specialty Hospital (Saket), Dharamshila Cancer Hospital, Shanti Mukand Hospital and Pushpawati Singhania Research Institute -- to deposit "unwarranted profits" they earned from allegedly refusing free treatment to the poor.
"Who will determine? What will be mode of determination," Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva asked while hearing a plea of Fortis Escorts Heart Institute here which has been slapped with a fine of over Rs 100 crore for allegedly refusing to provide free treatment to poor patients.
The court raised the query as the Delhi government did not place before it the original records of a meeting held on December 10 last year on the basis of which it had purportedly arrived at the amount.
Besides Fortis, the Delhi government had asked four other Delhi-based private hospitals -- Max Super Specialty Hospital (Saket), Dharamshila Cancer Hospital, Shanti Mukand Hospital and Pushpawati Singhania Research Institute -- to deposit "unwarranted profits" they earned from allegedly refusing free treatment to the poor.
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