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02. The petitioner is a doctor by profession and now working as Medical Officer in Government Hospital at Gudipala village, Chittoor District. The petitioner was diagonized with chronic kidney disease and suffering from Hypertension and diabetes and he was directed to undergo dialysis on a regular basis by the doctors at the hospital of 2nd respondent- Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences (for short 'SVIMS') and as such, he underwent dialysis at the 2nd respondent- SVIMS for the past 18 months, under Employee Health Scheme of the State Government. There are many patients like the petitioner, who are undergoing dialysis at the 2nd respondent-SVIMS and most of them are poor patients, who avail service free of cost at the 2nd respondent-SVIMS under various health schemes of the Government.

04. The 2nd respondent is an autonomous university established by Act of Andhra Pradesh State Legislature in 1995 recognized under Section 12(b) of University Grants Commision. The 2nd respondent has also set up a specialty hospital at Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh to cater the needs of lakhs of people annually with numerous bed strength of 1000 and around 2,000 students are prosecuting their studies in various courses.

05. The 2nd respondent-SVIMS had called for tenders in the year 2016 for setting up and running a haemodialysis unit consisting of 80 dialysis machines on a public-private partnership for a period of 7 years. As per the terms of the tender, the successful bidder has to procure and install the dialysis machines, provide the requisite number of doctors and qualified technicians to run the machines. The service provider has to provide services to the patients identified by the 2nd respondent-SVIMS, the payment would be made by the 2nd respondent- SVIMS itself. As most of the patients belong to the underprivileged section of society, procured medical services at free of cost in the 2nd respondent-SVIMS. The service provider has to run the necessary and 3 CPK,J & MSM, J prescribed tests on periodical basis for every patient. As the 3rd respondent hospital has quoted the least price for providing service, 2nd respondent-SVIMS selected 3rd respondent being the successful bidder in the tender for providing services in the dialysis unit. Though, the 3rd respondent hospital is under obligation to provide medical service in terms of the National Dialysis Program under National Health Mission, failed to provide necessary dialysis services. Some of the instances were narrated here under :

3. Keeping in mind SVIMS as an SVIMS is an extremely prestigious unique model, please focus and project. Regretting wishes to VIMS concentrate on providing the Management for lending their full requirements in this centre for best support and co-operation in and quality patient care. executing this project. Nephroplus is determined to make this unique model a success and provide superlative patient care.

4. There are certain other issues also Promised to take necessary steps need to be addressed such as to envisage the requirement of compensating SVIMS for supporting SVIMS HD Technicians and they the services of their HD Technicians will not repeat the same. to support your Nephroplus team due to lack of sufficient clinical staff in Neprhoplus. It is appropriate to atleast compensate 50% of their salaries to SVIMS with retrospective effect.