Supreme Court orders a nationwide audit of ICU facilities
The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered a nationwide audit of intensive care unit (ICU) facilities and gave states and Union Territories two months to assess infrastructural and manpower gaps and ascertain the equipment needed to bring critical care facilities at par with model guidelines by a court-appointed panel of experts. SC gave states and union territories two months to bring critical care facilities at par with model guidelines. (representative/REUTERS) The court simultaneously ordered a nationwide audit of nursing colleges, requiring the Indian Nursing Council (INC) to submit a report on hands-on training facilities available to students across the 800 colleges under it. “States/UTs shall ensure gap assessment exercise is undertaken by them and completed in two months. Simultaneously, they will work out modalities of putting into place/implementation of the minimum standards required for having ICU in any institution, starting from Level 1 ICU,” directed the bench of justices Ahsanuddin Amanullah and R Mahadevan. The directions were passed in proceedings wherein the court is considering framing uniform (ICU) guidelines, in regard to which a draft document …
