Maharashtra Hospital Stripped of its COVID-19 Facility Status Due to Several Lapses

A private hospital in Bhiwandi township of Maharashtra's Thane district has been stripped of its status as a COVID-19 treatment facility after severallapses were found in its functioning, a civic official said on Monday. It was observed that the COVID-19 death rate at the hospital was high. 

The facility, located in Kamatghar area,also did not have specialist doctors to treat the patients and lacked physicians, Bhiwandi Nizampur Municipal Corporation'smedical officer of health Dr Nitin Mokashi said.

It didn't follow treatment conventions of the IndianCouncil of Medical Research (ICMR), thus it was chosen to strip the emergency clinic of its status as a COVID-19 treatmentfacility, he said. 

Patients at present experiencing treatment



at thefacility will be promptly moved to the Indira Gandhi Dedication Hospital in Bhiwandi for additional treatment, he said. Authorities who had arranged the emergency clinic as a COVID-19 office without due ingenuity will likewise confront action,he included.

On Saturday, the Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC)suspended the licence of a city-based private hospital and cancelled its classification as a COVID-19 facility after itallegedly overcharged patients. The decision was welcomed by local leaders and socialactivists.

They were of the view that the TMC should take overthe facility and some other big hospitals in the city and use them for the treatment of COVID-19 patients. Till Sunday, Thane district reported 78,567 COVID-19 cases and 2,153 deaths due to the disease.