Max Hospital Licence Cancellation Stayed; Resumes Operations
Max Hospital resumes operation after stay on license cancellation.
The Delhi government order cancelling the licence of Max Hospital, Shalimar Bagh, has been stayed by an appellate body, following which the facility resumed its operations today. The licence cancellation case pertains to the premature twins, one of whom (a baby boy) was wrongly declared dead on November 30 at the hospital in North-West Delhi where he was born, and who died during treatment at a nursing home in Pitampura a week later.
Both the babies were declared stillborn by the hospital and handed over to the family allegedly in a polythene bag. But to their utter horror, they found that the boy was still alive, while they were on way to do their final rites. The case triggered an outrage, prompting the Aam Aadmi Party government's health department to cancel its licence on Dec. 8 for alleged medical negligence.
The Court of Financial Commissioner stayed the cancellation order issued by the Directorate General of Health Services till the next hearing on Jan. 9, according to its order issued yesterday, a copy of which has been accessed by PTI.
The hospital group had on Dec. 13 filed an appeal in the Financial Commissioner's court against the cancellation of the licence of its hospital. "The operation of impugned order is stayed till the next date of hearing. Fixed for arguments on provision of Section 8 (2) & 8 (4) of the Act (Delhi Nursing Home Registration Act, 1953)," the Financial Commissioner has said in the order.