New Delhi : Safdarjung Hospital withdraws controversial order of VVIP treatment
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New Delhi: Soon after taking out an order asking the hospital staff to accord " Priority Treatment" to certain group of "VVIP" patients, the authorities at Safdarjung Hospital took out another order to withdraw the previous one
The initial order had come out on March 2, 2016 had specifically mentioned that- "Doctors are requested to attend to VVIP patients, referred from the medical superintendent's office on a priority basis and report back to the undersigned immediately."The order further is reported to have implied according "priority treatment" to patients referred by the ministers, bureaucrats.
As soon as the order was out, it was met by strong opposition from the Doctors, staff as well the media, who accused the Central Government to promote VIP culture in its hospitals in the capital. This, indeed, came out in sharp contrast to the measures currently being announced by the Delhi government in removing the said VIP culture from Delhi Government Hospitals.
Read Also: No VIP culture in Delhi government hospitals, says Satyendra Jain
The initial order had come out on March 2, 2016 had specifically mentioned that- "Doctors are requested to attend to VVIP patients, referred from the medical superintendent's office on a priority basis and report back to the undersigned immediately."The order further is reported to have implied according "priority treatment" to patients referred by the ministers, bureaucrats.
As soon as the order was out, it was met by strong opposition from the Doctors, staff as well the media, who accused the Central Government to promote VIP culture in its hospitals in the capital. This, indeed, came out in sharp contrast to the measures currently being announced by the Delhi government in removing the said VIP culture from Delhi Government Hospitals.
Read Also: No VIP culture in Delhi government hospitals, says Satyendra Jain
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