The council has failed all but one hospital it reviewed as they couldn't pass its accreditation test.
The ` failures' include reputed institutions such as Lok Nayak Hospital, Deen Dayal Upadhyay ( DDU) Hospital and Guru Teg Bahadur ( GTB) Hospital, which bear a huge patient load not only from the Capital and the NCR but also from across the country. Seven government hospitals reviewed by the QCI were tagged as " unfit" as they didn't meet even the lowest quality standards needed to acquire the accreditation.
Only the Geeta Colony- based Chacha Nehru Bal Chikitsalaya could get the QCI certification.
The council said Delhi's government hospitals were struggling to meet even the lowest healthcare standards. The quality of treatment provided by these hospitals was low, most had illequipped operation theatres and hospital infections were rampant, the QCI observed.
For the past two years, no government hospital -- save for Chacha Nehru Bal Chikitsalaya -- has been able to earn a quality certificate from the National Accreditation Board for Hospital and Healthcare Providers ( NABH), which is a constituent board of the QCI. The Delhi government approached the QCI two years ago when a programme was started to provide accreditation to the hospitals and medical institutions to maintain healthcare standards. The project was initiated by the then principal secretary Vivek Rae.
" Hospitals have been unsuccessfully struggling to get a quality accreditation from us for the past two years. But it seems healthcare is not a priority for the government," QCI secretary general Dr Girdhar J. Gyani said.
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