The Central Information Commission has asked the Directorate of Health Services to disclose and upload details of patients being treated under the Economically Weaker Section or EWS category in private hospitals.In order to ensure that beneficiaries under the EWS received the benefit, Information Commissioner Shailesh Gandhi has directed the Directorate of Health Services, Delhi that it should publish the name, father's name, address and bed number of all patients treated under the category daily in all the private hospitals which have been allotted land by government at subsidised rate.The list should be published at their website daily. Earlier, the DHS only disclosed the number of beds available or empty for beneficiaries of the EWS patients in private hospitals who have been allotted land by government at subsidised rate. The order came after an RTI application to DHS seeking information on the matter from a private hospital in New Delhi.
News On AIR | October 3, 2010 10:38 AM
Upload details of EWS patients treated in pvt hospitals: CIC