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Not covered by court ruling: cancer institute

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court has issued notices to the Centre, the Delhi Government and the Municipal Corporation of Delhi on a petition by the Rajeev Gandhi Cancer Institute and Research Centre here, submitting that it was not covered by the March 22 judgment of the Court directing private hospitals here to treat poor patients free both in their indoor and outdoor patient departments.

The ruling says that all private hospitals that were granted public land at cheaper rates here will have to provide free treatment to poor patients. Ten per cent of the treatment capacity in the Indoor Patient Department and 25 per cent in the Out-Door Patient Department would be reserved for poor patients. The Rajeev Gandhi Cancer Institute and Research Centre submitted that it was not covered by the judgment as it had purchased the land at market rate.

The ruling had come on public interest litigation filed by Ashok Aggarwal of a non-government organisation, “Social Jurist”, seeking implementation of the land deed agreement entered into with these hospitals for providing, among other things, free treatment to certain percentage of poor patients out of their total treatment capacities.

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