Private Hospitals have to keep 30% beds of its total capacity reserved for corona patients – Health Minister

Jaipur, September 25. Health Minister Dr Raghu Sharma has directed in-service private hospitals at Jaipur, Jodhpur, Kota, Udaipur, Ajmer, and Bikaner district headquarters to keep 30% beds reserved out of their total bed capacity for corona infected patients. 

Dr Sharma said that the role of government and private hospitals in the State during the corona period was praiseworthy but still there are few big private hospitals who are not treating the corona infected patients. He said that private hospitals with beds capacity of 80 beds or more in Jaipur, Jodhpur, Kota, and Udaipur district headquarters will have to keep 30% of their beds reserved for corona infected patients. He said that it will be compulsory for the private hospitals with capacity of 60 beds or more in Ajmer and Bikaner district headquarters will also have to keep 30% beds for corona patients. 

The Health Minister said that all such private hospitals following COVID-19 protocol will have to treat corona infected patients in a separate ward within the hospital premises. The treatment of corona infected patients will be done as per the rates of the department's notification dated September 3, 2020. 

The Health Department principal secretary Shri Akhil Arora using the Rajasthan Epidemic Ordinance has issued directions to private hospitals on Friday.