The informed the High Court that it has adopted the 2010 central legislation, Clinical Establishments Act, aimed at regulating and monitoring the private hospitals and also brought in the required mechanism to implement the law in the state.
The law is known asTelanganaClinical Establishments (Registering and Regulation) Act after it came into force in June 2022. The state informed this to a bench of Chief JusticeUjjal BhuyanandJusticeN Tukaramji that was hearing a PIL filed byVijay Gopalof Forum Against Corruption, an NGO, questioning the inaction of the state in adopting the central law.
The state, it can be recalled, argued that its laws are far more effective and hence it need not adopt the central law. Scores of petitions, including the current one, alleged the state has done nothing to punish errant hospitals and left hapless people at the mercy of corporate and private hospitals mafia. There were allegations that corporate hospitals have made crores during the pandemic.