hyderabad district medical health officers dmhos across telangana have been tasked with inspecting private clinicsnursing homes to identify unqualified staff and inadequate infrastructure the dmhos will have to submit a report in the next 10 days with all such detailsit has been brought to our notice that certain hospitalsnursing homesclinicsconsultation roomspolyclinicsdiagnostic centresphysiotherapy unitsdental hospitals in the state are running without registration under the prescribed act it is also observed that unqualified doctorsparamedical staff and other essential staff are also working in the above institutions read the directive issued to dmhos by the director public health telangana the directive also elaborated on how many clinical establishments are running without proper infrastructure essential medical equipment proper sanitation and biomedical waste management and have been raising serious patient safety concerns in view of the above all district medical health officers in the state are instructed to conduct inspections duly forming teams with programme officers and deputy dmhos and take stringent action on clinical establishments which have not followed norms as per the act the order read while giving a deadline of compliance to the officials meanwhile authorities estimate the number of errant hospitalsclinics that do not follow the required norms to be as high as 60 to 70 a senior official said majority small clinics and nursing homes will fall short on all the required counts trained personnel sanitation infrastructure biomedical waste disposal and registration while some might be registered but will fall short on other criteria even though during inspects they are able to make some hurried arrangements of showing qualified staff for a day infrastructure arrangements cannot be made we are expecting huge numbers