"Strict monitoring of the existing scheme of reserving 20 per cent beds for poor and beneficiaries of the Rajiv Gandhi Jeevandayi scheme will be done. The scheme has been approved by the high court," Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan said, adding the hospitals who turn away the poor patients will not be entitled to get various concessional facilities if they failed to adhere to the norms.
Chavan observed that big hospitals, especially in Mumbai, are not been abiding by the directives of providing medical facilities to the poor.
"It has been observed that the hospitals deny facilities saying that they have already fulfilled the 20 per cent quota," he said.
Chavan directed the monitoring committee to submit a report on its functioning within six months.
