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Srinagar, Aug 22: At least twenty private hospitals/nursing homes across Valley including 10 from Srinagar are carrying healthcare operations without holding proper medical registrations certificates, an RTI has revealed.
The shocking revelation has surfaced that twenty private hospitals-cum-nursing homes are functioning without having valid documents across Valley.
Among un-valid health centers, ten belong to Srinagar district, said Siraj-ud-din an RTI activist who has sought information from DHSK.
The Director Health Services of Kashmir (DHSK) in its reply has informed the RTI activist that forty-five private hospitals/nursing homes are functioning across J&K including three from Ladakh Union Territory.
The information reads that there are at least twenty hospitals/nursing homes whose registration has been expired years before.
In Srinagar district there are ten hospitals/nursing homes whose registration certificates had expired years before but the administration of the concerned have not approached yet to renew the validity of their institutions.
Those functioning without valid registration in Srinagar include Care Hospital Bemina (13.11.2009), Florence Hospital Chanapora (13.01.2020), New City Hospital Tengpora (23.03.2020), Noora Hospital Zainakote (24.01.2020), Safa Marwah Medical Centre 90 Ft Road Soura (09.06.2020), Star Hospital Sanantnagar (26.10.2018), Mubarak Hospital Hyderpora (02.08.2009), Al-Ameen Charitable Trust Hyderpora (02.08.2014), Classic Hospital Hyderpora (02.08.2009) and Imam Hussain (AS) Foundation Hospital Bemina (23.01.2012).
Those belonging to other parts of Valley includes Life Long Nursing Home, Beehama, Ganderbal (26.12.2019), Zenith Nursing Home, Exchange Road, Dangerpora Pulwama (21.02.2019), Kong Posh Nursing Home Pampore (28.03.2016), Hakim Sana-ullah Special Hospital & Cancer Centre, Sopore (26.07.2015), Dr Altaf Nursing Home Baramulla (28.08.2018), Sopore Nursing Home, Sopore (16.08.2018), St Joseph’s Hospital, Baramulla (28.03.2017), Al-Hayat Maternity & Laparoscopic Hospital, Janglat Mandi Anantnag (20.02.2020), Waseem Memorial Nursing Home, Handwara, Kupwara (02.03.2020) and Quality Health Care Centre, Bramri, Kupwara (10.07.2019).
In the document provided by the Directorate of Health Services Kashmir (DHSK), it has been surfaced that Noora Hospital Srinagar is refusing to provide treatment having golden cards issued under Ayushman Bharat by Government of India. However the applicant has been asked to sought information from CMO Srinagar. (KNS)
