MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court has asked the Maharashtra executive to encourage non-public medical doctors to help in civil hospitals around the state by way of charity so that poor patients will also be benefited.
The executive's exercise of getting such medical doctors to serve on the Malegaon civil sanatorium (in Nashik district) will have to be followed as a 'style' in other districts, it said.
A division bench of Justices N H Patil and G S Kulkarni used to be hearing a PIL last week filed through a resident of Malegaon town, alleging state of no activity on part of the public health department and the native civic body in filling vacancies for medical doctors and assistant scientific body of workers on the Malegaon civic sanatorium for years.
The petitioner, Rakesh Bhamare, cited replies to his Right to Information (RTI) queries to inform the court that government had didn't sanction and fill such vacancies since 2012.
Earlier this month, Advocate General Ashutosh Kumbhakoni submitted a report back to the court appearing paintings carried out through scientific mavens connected to the Malegaon civil sanatorium and medical doctors practicing privately in June this year.
As according to the record, except for three gynaecologists running with the Malegaon civil sanatorium, 12 gynaecologists and as many anaesthetists running with non-public hospitals have also contributed there.
"The report is encouraging. It has informed that private doctors have shown their willingness to extend co-operation as and when required by the administration," the court said.
"We appreciate the gesture. We further expect the administration to encourage private doctors to get them involved in such an exercise, which would be a step in the larger public interest," the bench said.
"We expect the administration would continue the work in the same manner so that poor patients are benefited and this could be a model exercise to be followed in the rest of Maharashtra," the court said.
The executive will have to take important steps to protect all civil hospitals' premises in Maharashtra through erecting boundary walls, important fencing and through appointing appropriate businesses to safeguard them, it said.
The court asked Kumbhakoni to discuss the issue with the state department's secretary concerned and take important steps.
The executive's exercise of getting such medical doctors to serve on the Malegaon civil sanatorium (in Nashik district) will have to be followed as a 'style' in other districts, it said.
A division bench of Justices N H Patil and G S Kulkarni used to be hearing a PIL last week filed through a resident of Malegaon town, alleging state of no activity on part of the public health department and the native civic body in filling vacancies for medical doctors and assistant scientific body of workers on the Malegaon civic sanatorium for years.
The petitioner, Rakesh Bhamare, cited replies to his Right to Information (RTI) queries to inform the court that government had didn't sanction and fill such vacancies since 2012.
Earlier this month, Advocate General Ashutosh Kumbhakoni submitted a report back to the court appearing paintings carried out through scientific mavens connected to the Malegaon civil sanatorium and medical doctors practicing privately in June this year.
As according to the record, except for three gynaecologists running with the Malegaon civil sanatorium, 12 gynaecologists and as many anaesthetists running with non-public hospitals have also contributed there.
"The report is encouraging. It has informed that private doctors have shown their willingness to extend co-operation as and when required by the administration," the court said.
"We appreciate the gesture. We further expect the administration to encourage private doctors to get them involved in such an exercise, which would be a step in the larger public interest," the bench said.
"We expect the administration would continue the work in the same manner so that poor patients are benefited and this could be a model exercise to be followed in the rest of Maharashtra," the court said.
The executive will have to take important steps to protect all civil hospitals' premises in Maharashtra through erecting boundary walls, important fencing and through appointing appropriate businesses to safeguard them, it said.
The court asked Kumbhakoni to discuss the issue with the state department's secretary concerned and take important steps.
Encourage private doctors to help in state-run hospitals: HC tells Maharashtra govt
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