New Delhi: Private hospitals getting subsidised land cannot run away from its responsibility to give free treatment to economically weaker section of society, the Supreme Court said on Thursday while asking them to work out a mechanism with Delhi government for ensuring this.
A bench comprising Justices R V Raveendran and A K Patnaik pulled up some of the hospitals for not giving free treatment to the poor.
“Why are you not doing so. Why did you agree to terms and conditions of lease agreement for taking land. If you cannot do so then pay the market value of the land to the government. We know how much money you make,” the bench said.
It asked the hospitals to sit with government authorities to sort out the issue and work out a scheme to treat the poor patientsfree of cost.(PTI)