‘Govt will challenge HC order on GTB Hospital pilot project’

New Delhi, October 12

The Delhi government will challenge the high court's Friday order quashing its circular on giving preferential treatment to city residents over non-residents at Guru Teg Bahadur (GTB) Hospital here, an official said today.

Under the pilot project implemented early October, the residents of Delhi get preference at the registration counters, in-patient department, tests and medicine counter service, and identification is done on the basis of voter identity card at GTB Hospital.

"It is the duty of any government to provide better facilities to the taxpayers," a Delhi government spokesperson said.

"The Delhi government disagrees with the honourable Delhi High Court on the issue of providing facilities to Delhi residents at GTB Hospital and it will challenge the court's order in the honourable Supreme Court," he added.

The proposal to give preference to the residents of Delhi at the hospital in Dilshad Garden was approved in August by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.

The high court Friday quashed the AAP government's circular on giving preferential treatment to Delhi residents over non-residents at the hospital. — PTI