Overview
- The court recorded the Delhi government's move raising the EWS income limit to Rs 5 lakh and directed wide publicity and application at all government hospitals and private facilities on concessional land.
- UPSC and the DSSSB were told to fast-track appointments of specialists, doctors, nurses and paramedical staff and to place updated recruitment timelines before the Health Secretary.
- The government must file hospital-wise reports on diagnostic and radiology capacity, 2025 patient load, reporting delays and payments to empanelled centres after the bench found the current status unclear.
- Bidding to outsource radiology services must be finalised immediately with bidder outreach completed within one month under the Health Secretary’s supervision.
- Remaining NextGen e-Hospital/HMIS modules must go live by January 31 with a court demonstration, agencies must examine real-time hospital data via a mobile app, an urgent decision is required on completing the partly built Lok Nayak expansion, and a comprehensive compliance review is set for February 13.