Are West Bengal Private Hospitals refusing to Admit Emergency Patients?
Kolkata: With the introduction of West Bengal Clinical Establishment Act, reports seem to be flowing in that the private hospitals in the state are fearing to accept emergency cases, fearing that a patient's death might lead to them facing the wrath of the government. This in turn as caused tremendous burden on states government hospitals, most of which are already overburdened with queues of patients.
Millenium Post reveals, since the enactment of ACT, that SSKM Hospital, the only super-specialty hospital government hospital in Bengal has been overloaded with critical care patients who are being transferred by the private hospitals in recent days citing various reasons. The inflow of critical patients has gone up as high as 30%.
As per the past few months data, the other state run medical colleges including the Calcutta Medical College and Hospital and the NRS Medical College and Hospital have also registered a sharp rise in the number of critical patients.
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