11 patients die in Ggn’s pvt hospitals daily, RTI reveals
GURUGRAM: With 3,643 deaths recorded in the last 11 months, statistics show that an average of 11 people lose their lives daily in major private hospitals of Gurugram.
The information was provided to activist Mohit Khatana by the Municipal Corporation of Gurugram, over an RTI petition filed by him.
With over 1,430 deaths Medanata Hospital leads the charts, with four deaths daily.
Other hospitals in the list are Artemis at 715 deaths, Park with 505, Paras with 458, Fortis with 314 and Max with 221.
The data reflects how highly residents of Gurugram, as well as those of neighbouring states like Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, are dependant on the city’s private hospitals.
Recently, Bhupendra Singh Yadav, the son of former Rajasthan minister, died of swine flu in one such private hospital.
“One of the reasons for such a high number of deaths is the large numbers of patients coming from outside areas.
“Most of them come in serious conditions that does not get adequate medical treatment in the hospital in their areas,” said a senior doctor, requesting anonymity.
Even as ethical practices of private hospitals are being questioned, poor public healthcare has pushed patients towards the privates.
In a reply to one of Khatana’s earlier RTI queries, it was revealed that the absence of a trauma centre led to over 10,000 patients being referred to Delhi government hospitals between 2004 and October 2017.
Notwithstanding the controversies surrounding top hospitals, another RTI reply revealed that 224 private clinics in Gurugram were being run by quacks.
Taking cognisance of the issue, the Haryana government wishes to enforce the Clinical Establishment Act.
However, the passage of the bill has been rocky, as doctors in private hospitals have expressed their dismay over the law and even threatened strikes. GURUGRAM: With an objective to deal with terrorists as well as the deadly gangs, the Gurugram police will get its own snipers.
Recently, their officials of district police were trained at NSG camp in Manesar to enhance their skills.
With snipers being required for mostly terrorist operations, most states, including Haryana, are training their commandos for being snipers.
Their services are required not only to deal with criminals, but also with miscreants during rioting situations.
In the past, the law and enforcement officials had to deal with various situations where gunshots had been fired in densely populated areas of the city.
Once dependent on encounter specialists, Gurugram Police now want to play safe in using their services in dealing with the deadly gangs operating in Gurugram. For a long time, the services of the special men trained solely to kill was a strategy adopted for elimination of dangerous gang leaders of Gurugram. However controversial process involved during encounters, judicial intervention and high costs used for the department for encounter specialists has forced the Gurugram Police to change its strategy.
Sources in the Crime Branch said that there has been a reduction in the dangers posed by the deadly gangs. NOIDA: Ahead of the grand Investor’s Summit in Uttar Pradesh on February 21 and 22 in Lucknow, the Noida Authority has expedited development of industrial plots above five acres, in order to attract big players of the industrial sector.
According to officials, companies such as TCS, Paytm, Sony among others have applied for these plots through the open end scheme.
The authority will allot plots to these applicants by February 15, following which an MOU will be signed with the company at the investors meet.
The Uttar Pradesh government has set a target to sign memorandums of understanding (MOU) for investment worth Rs 2 lakh crore at the investor’s meet.
“Sector 155 and 156 have been developed as industrial sectors with an investment of over Rs 30 crores. Plots of bigger sizes have also been launched to attract big companies. The civil work will be completed and plots will be allotted to companies wherein they can set up their plants,” said a Noida Authority official .