Bengaluru: Clarifying rules on private practice, the Karnataka government has strictly prohibited government doctors from treating in-patients in private hospitals, citing concerns that it could disrupt services in government hospitals. The government said that treating inpatients at private hospitals can interfere with doctors’ regular government duties. Therefore, government doctors are not allowed to admit or treat inpatients, or proposed inpatients, in private hospitals under any circumstances. Accordingly, it is instructed that treatment of in-patients (IPD) or proposed in-patients as part of private practice by government doctors is strictly prohibited." Also read- Superintendent of 12 hospitals attached to SMS Medical College resign over private practice ban