Medicine has become a lucrative business: Delhi High Court remarks on Nurses Plea
The plea sought a declaration from the court that nurses in private hospitals and nursing homes are entitled to same benefits and salary as their counterparts in government hospitals.
New Delhi: While hearing a PIL alleging that nurses were being financially exploited in private hospitals and nursing homes in the city, the Delhi High Court remarked that 'education and medicine have become a lucrative business'.
A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar issued a notice to the Centre and sought its stand on the plea, which claimed that situation of nurses in private medical institutions has not improved despite a direction by the Supreme Court to protect their rights.
The Centre, represented by advocate Manik Dogra, told the court that the guidelines on salary and working conditions of the nurses have been framed and it was the duty of the individual states to implement them.
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