Private hospitals no profit-making ventures: Mamata

Kolkata: Keeping in mind reservations of some quarters over a bill to regulate functioning of private hospitals, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee explained that her government never wanted them to shut down, but reminded them that they were not profit-making ventures.

"We never said private hospitals and nursing homes should shut down here. We never wanted treatment there to stop. But we must not forget about people. We must guard against turning medical facilities into profit-making organisations. Medical facilities are places to provide seva not make money," Banerjee said.

"If one dreams of making profit by pushing injections like one selling Chinese food, then one is wrong," she said.

"Take from them who are capable of paying such bills if the treatment is genuine. We have never said anything. But remember dont go for over billing and negligence in treating them," she said.