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Private hospitals operate like business, can’t ask govt for security: SC


The Supreme Court on Monday said the state and the Central governments cannot provide security to private hospitals and nursing homes, which operate like business enterprises, during the hearing of a plea seeking directions to provide security to doctors and healthcare workers, vulnerable to attacks by patients’ relatives and others.


A bench of Justices S.K. Kaul and A.S. Oka said the private hospitals charge…

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