more-inLieutenant-Governor Anil Baijal on Friday approved a proposal for free treatment for medico-legal victims of road accidents, acid attacks and burn injury terming it “a step in the right direction”. According to Raj Niwas, the L-G also approved Cabinet proposals to provide financial assistance for specified high-end diagnostic tests and surgeries and for outsourcing of diagnostic services to provide free laboratory services at Mohalla Clinics, Polyclinics and Mobile Health Clinics. Complete transparency and relevant procedures and guidelines, the L-G said, should be followed strictly while empanelling private hospitals. “He has also emphasised that a mechanism must be evolved for ensuring that unnecessary tests are not prescribed in collusion with private medical centres. Further, the quality of tests and the private institutions empanelled for these tests also should be ensured through appropriate penalties in case of malpractices and poor quality,” the statement said.

Source: The Hindu December 30, 2017 10:30 UTC