Chief Minister Satish Kumar Singh has closed 11 private hospitals in Barhathwa of Sarlahi.

Chief Minister Singh has ordered to lock 11 hospitals that do not have permission to operate services and do not have physical structures as per the standards, management of manpower, equipment, tools, medicine, etc.

Sankatmochan Healthcare Pvt Ltd, Sanjeevani Hospital Pvt Ltd, Happycare Medical Pvt Ltd, Sarlahi Golden Hospital Pvt Ltd, Unit Hospital Pvt Ltd, Venus Health Care Pvt Ltd, Barhathwa Navajeevan Hospital Pvt Ltd, Hanumant Hospital Pvt Ltd, Bhubaneswar Dental Clinic, Jai Maa Health Care and Barhathwa Polyclinic are among the health institutions that have been instructed to close. 

On Wednesday night, during the monitoring of health institutions in Barhathwa, the press advisor of Chief Minister Singh, Anil Kumar Karn, informed that those hospitals that have not obtained service operation permits, have obtained service operation permits against legal provisions, have not been renovated and are operating against standards have been instructed to close. Santosh Thakur, Public Health Officer of the Ministry of Health and Population, said that health institutions that have been closed have been given written instructions to operate only after taking service permits, renewing them and meeting the standards according to the law.