Photo Source: ANI
Hospitals can't admit patients to intensive care units if they or their families refuse: Govt's new guidelines
Babushahi Bureau
New Delhi, January 2, 2024: Hospitals cannot admit critically ill patients to the intensive care unit (ICU) if they and their families refuse, according to the Union Health Ministry's recent guidelines on ICU admissions.
The guidelines compiled by 24 experts also recommended that when no further treatment is possible or available in a disease or in terminally ill patients, if continuing therapy does not improve the outcome, particularly survival, then keeping in ICU is futile care.