With the court of Financial Commissioner putting stay on the Delhi Government’s order of cancellation of Max Hospital licence, the Max Shalimar Bagh claimed to have resumed its operation on Wednesday, nearly 10 days after its licence was cancelled by the Delhi Government for wrongly declaring a newly born twin dead.
Max Healthcare claimed its hospital in Shalimar Bagh in the city has resumed operations from today after an “appropriate” authority “stayed” its licence cancellation. A week ago, the hospital group had filed an appeal in the Court of the Financial Commissioner Rinku Dugga, against the cancellation of the license by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) of the city Government.
Meanwhile, the relatives and a few others had protested outside the Max against the stay order. They alleged that they have been denied justice by the order by the Financial Commissioner to reopen the hospital.
The Max Hospital case pertains to one of the premature twins wrongly declared dead on 30 November at the hospital where he was born, and who died during treatment at a nursing home in Pitampura after he survived for a week and subsequently died due to medical complications. Both the babies were declared stillborn by the hospital and handed over to the family allegedly in a polythene bag. But they found that the boy was still alive, while they were on way to do their final rites.
The Delhi Government on the basis of enquiry report submitted by the committee constituted to look into the matter cancelled the hospital”s license. The report found hospital guilty of “gross negligence” in dealing with twin case while it also found the hospital guilty in other cases.
The hospital in a statement issued on Wednesday said that a stay order has been issued by the appellate authority the office of the Financial Commissioner in the matter and that they were committed to providing quality healthcare to their patients. The hospital, in a release, said that operations were being resumed following a stay order issued by the “appropriate appellate authority” to whom it had appealed. The hospital had filed an appeal on December 14 asking
authorities to reconsider its decision “in the interest of public welfare”.