India, Feb. 13 -- The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has issued show-cause notices to 97 private nursing homes and hospitals in the city for alleged violations of the Bombay Nursing Home Registration Act 1949 and Maharashtra Nursing Home Registration (Amendment) Rules, 2021. All these hospitals were identified during a special drive which started on January 10.

Besides, three hospitals in Undri, NDA Road and Karve Road have been issued notices to stop operations that were found operating sans nursing home licenses, said officials.

Dr Suryakant Devkar, assistant health officer of PMC, said, "These hospitals have been given one month to complete the compliance. After the hospitals submit the compliance report, a reinspection of these ho...