Doctors Cry Foul, Seek Relaxation In DC Rules The civic body's health department has filed criminal cases against 60 nursing homes in the city for allegedly functioning without the mandatory licence. The crackdown has caused much anxiety to the city's medical fraternity because most nursing homes that operate from residential premises do not possess the licence to function as made mandatory by the development control (DC) rules. Earlier, these nursing homes were asked to comply with the norms or face legal action.
Doctors, however, failed to get their clinical setups regularised, following which the civic health officials filed criminal cases against them at various courts of the judicial magistrates (first class). The drive against the illegal nursing homes had started in October last year, following which about 20 nursing homes even closed down their premises fearing that they would…
