Govt to take over private medical college hospitals if they do not admit COVID-19 patients: Pondy CM V Narayanasamy
"If these private medical colleges played a hide-and-seek game in honouring their commitment, the government would not hesitate to take over the institutions and there would be no other option. This measure would be in the larger interest of saving patients," Chief Minister V Narayanasamy said.;
Puducherry: Puducherry Chief Minister V Narayanasamy on Saturday warned the government would take over private medical colleges in the union territory if they did not cooperate by admitting COVID-19 patients in their hospitals.
Government hospitals were doing their best to ensure that coronavirus patients were taken care of, he said at a virtual press conference.
"We need the cooperation of seven private medical colleges as the number of infections has been on the rise now," he added.
The chief minister said the management of these colleges had accepted at one stage the plea of the government to make their hospitals available for admission of COVID-19 patients.
"But there are still some colleges who do not pay heed to the government's repeated pleas to make the facilities in the colleges and hospitals available for patients referred by the government," he added.
"If these colleges played a hide-and-seek game in honoring their commitment, the government would not hesitate to take over the institutions and there would be no other option. This measure would be in the larger interest of saving patients," the Chief Minister said.
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