BBMP chief N Manjunatha Prasad (centre) inspects a private hospital in east Bengaluru on Sunday
BENGALURU: The Karnataka government on Sunday turned the heat on private hospitals by forming seven special teams to ensure they followed the bed-reservation matrix to treat Covid-19 patients, while the new BBMP commissioner inspected three big private hospitals for compliance.
The government order on constituting the special teams, each of them comprising one IAS and one IPS officer, comes in the wake of reports that many hospitals were not offering the number of beds as agreed upon with the government. “It has come to our notic