Hospitals have become large industries, better close them: SC

The Supreme Court on Monday observed that hospitals have become large industries thriving on human distress, and it is better they are closed. The top court added state governments can provide better hospitals, instead of permitting private hospitals to operate from small residential buildings.

A bench comprising Justice D.Y. Chandrachud and M.R. Shah said: “Hospitals have become large industries now based on human distress and we cannot let them prosper at the cost of lives. Let such hospitals be closed”. The bench pulled up the Gujarat government for extending the deadline for hospitals in connection with building use permissions.

The bench cited that one patient had recovered from Covid and had to be released the next day, but he died due to fire, and also two nurses were burnt alive. “These are human tragedies which have unfolded before our eyes! Then, we go on extending time for these hospitals,” he said.

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