Increase your bed capacity: Delhi Health Minister to private hospitals

Delhi state government has launched 1031 as the helpline number to assist the dengue patients in the capital. The service will provide callers round-the-clock information on the disease and its treatments, as they canceled leaves of doctors and paramedical staff including nurses and lab technicians in city hospitals.

"We have directed municipalities to spread awareness on the adverse affects of self medication and have also directed hospitals to open special fever clinics to deal with patients of suspected Dengue cases, “an official said. The government has directed all hospitals to open special fever clinics to deal with patients of suspected dengue cases to ease the rush in emergency wards.

Union health ministry on Monday directed the Delhi government to take action against private hospitals which are overcharging for conducting dengue tests.

It was also decided at the meeting that testing kits should be taken only from the government designated laboratories and hospitals. "Adequate stocks of NSI and IgM testing kits to detect dengue cases are available with identified 514 sentinels surveillance hospitals and apex referral laboratories, whose list is updated on the health ministry website," the health ministry said in a statement.

More importantly, government has strictly said there should be no overcharging in private hospitals. If a hospital has increased the rates in the past one month, the Ministry has directed them to bring it back to normal levels.

Below are the orders issued by DHS to private hospitals regarding the same