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Telangana to adopt Central Act to curb malpractices
State government is likely to adopt Union government’s Clinical Establishments Act to arm itself with the authority to monitor the functioning of the private hospitals, besides keeping a check on “C-sections.”
Minister for Health C Laxma Reddy says the government is firm in ensuring that hospitals do not employ unethical practices
Hyderabad: State government is likely to adopt Union government’s Clinical Establishments Act to arm itself with the authority to monitor the functioning of the private hospitals, besides keeping a check on “C-sections.”
Stating this in the Legislative Council in reply to a question by BJP member N Ramachander Rao, Health Minister C Laxma Reddy on Saturday said the number of caesarean procedures in private hospital had increased. The government had constituted a three-member committee to inquire into the issue and submit a report.
The government, the Minister said, was now taking stringent steps to curb the unnecessary C-section procedures. The hospitals were ordered to give the list of surgeries performed every month. He said adopting Clinical Establishments Act of the Centre would help in curbing the practice of unwanted surgeries.
The Minister said maternal mortality rate has shown an impressive drop when compared to the previous years. During the combined Andhra Pradesh the rate was 92 per one lakh live births. Now it was 70 per one lakh live births in Telangana State.
The improvement was achieved as corrective measures were taken by the TRS government. Stating that earlier governments did not make efforts to provide healthcare, Laxma Reddy said. There were no ICUs in government hospitals like Niloufer, Gandhi and Osmania Hospitals. He said that the State government had set up four ICUs in the government hospitals. Leader of opposition Md Ali Shabbir disputed the Minister’s statement.
Replying to this, the Minister said that in 2012, during the Congress regime 21 children died in the Niloufer hospitals, but the then government did not bother to declare medical emergency.
