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Mumbai: Private hospitals will now have to add 'charitable' to their names
Updated On: 27 July, 2018 07:02 AM IST | Mumbai | Rupsa Chakraborty
The administration has issued a notification asking all hospitals to add the word to their names for display on hospital buildings
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The Charity Commissioner's office is of the opinion that adding the word 'charitable' in names of private hospitals will ensure that beds reserved for the underprivileged don't remain unused. The administration has issued a notification asking all hospitals to add the word to their names for display on hospital buildings.
It is mandatory for all big hospitals to reserve 20 per cent of their total beds for the poor. But there have been several cases of hospitals not complying with the norm or advertising the same on their premises, especially at the entry.
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