Health dept sends notice to pvt hospital over expired registration

Kolkata: The state Health department has issued a notification to Namita Biswas Memorial Eye Hospital in Garia's Middle Town area, after it failed to renew registration.

It has been learnt that the Health department asked the private hospital authorities not to admit patients, after it found some infrastructural lapses in the hospital. The hospital authorities, however, claimed that the Health department has given them verbal consent to continue normal functioning. A senior official of the hospital said that they were asked to stop functioning for two days as the registration was not renewed with the Health department. The hospital authorities, however, urged the health authorities for a relaxation.

According to sources, the private eye hospital was running without a valid registration for quite some time. No hospital can operate without a valid registration from the Health department.

A question appears here on how a private health establishment could admit patients when it had no valid clearance from the state Health department.