The Odisha government has warned action against the private hospitals for not providing critical services to non-COVID patients, said the state Health Department. “It has come to the notice that some hospitals in the private sector are hesitating in providing critical services such as dialysis, blood transfusion, chemotherapy and institutional deliveries to their regular patients, either on account of fear of contracting COVID-19 or they are keeping their hospitals/ clinics closed,” said an order of the Directorate of Health Services (DHS) on Friday.
