Haryana govt notifies Clinical Establishment Act : The Tribune India

Join Whatsapp Channel

Haryana govt notifies Clinical Establishment Act

KURUKSHETRA: Aimed at ensuring minimum standards of facilities for providing quality healthcare and fixing accountability of doctors, the Haryana Government has adopted the Clinical Establishments (Registration and Regulation), Act 2010.

Haryana govt notifies Clinical Establishment Act

Photo for representation only. Thinkstock



Vishal Joshi

Tribune News Service

Kurukshetra, February 11

Aimed at ensuring minimum standards of facilities for providing quality healthcare and fixing accountability of doctors, the Haryana Government has adopted the Clinical Establishments (Registration and Regulation), Act 2010.

A notification of the Clinical Establishments (Registration and Regulation) Adoption Ordinance, passed by the Governor on January 23, was circulated last evening.

As per the official notification, hospitals only with more than 50-bed healthcare facilities will be covered under the rule.

Sources said the rule will help in checking overcharging by private hospitals.

Officials said that nearly 200 hospitals, with the majority of them based in Gurugram and Faridabad, would be covered under the new rule.

The rule will be applicable on all charitable and private institutes with more than 50-beds capacity.

Dr AP Setia, the patron of the Haryana chapter of the Indian Medical Association (IMA), said the association was always a votary for the professional transparency without jeopardising the interests of doctors.

He said Haryana had become the only state in the country to exempt the doctors running the small and medium scale nursing homes from the stringent rule.

“There are nearly 2,250 clinics with have an intake capacity to admit less than 50 patients and they have not been brought under the preview of the rule. IMA had been struggling for the interests of small nursing homes,” he said.

In March 2014, then Congress government had formed the Haryana Clinical Establishment (Registration and Regulation) Act but it could not be implemented due to tough opposition by the IMA.

However, following a case of medical negligence in the death of a seven-year-old dengue patient in Fortis Hospital in Gurugram in November last year, the Haryana Government faced pressure from various quarters to frame rules in the complaints of fraudulent or unethical practices by doctors.

Following a call of IMA, the private doctors across Haryana had suspended work at hospitals on December 15 against state’s decision to promulgate an Ordinance for bringing checks and balances on the medical practitioners.

However, IMA patron Setia said the association had also forwarded a charter of demands to the state authorities for relaxations for the hospital management with more than 50-bed.

Setia said these hospitals should be granted a window period of up to five years for the complete hiring of qualified staff for nursing and technicians.

“Non-availability of paramedic manpower as per the requirement is a challenge before the hospitals. As the state government is opening new nursing institutes, qualified professionals can be engaged in the next few years. Similarly, the hospitals should not be forced to bring changes in the existing infrastructure,” he said.


 

Top News

Chief Judicial Magistrate's court in UP's Banda orders judicial inquiry into death of gangster-politician Mukhtar Ansari

UP court orders judicial probe into gangster-politician Mukhtar Ansari’s death

Ghazipur MP Afzal Ansari on Tuesday alleged that his brother...

‘Heart attack or poisoning’: The life and times of Mukhtar Ansari—crime and politics

‘Heart attack or poisoning’: The life and times of Mukhtar Ansari—crime and politics

Eastern parts of Uttar Pradesh are among the poorest regions...

Alka Rai, widow BJP MLA killed by Mukhtar Ansari, says 'justice has been served', visits Ram Mandir

Alka Rai, widow BJP MLA killed by Mukhtar Ansari, says 'justice has been served', visits Ram Mandir

Alka Rai is the wife of MLA Krishanand Rai, who was shot dea...

Cash-strapped Congress gets fresh IT notice of Rs 1,700 crore, say party insiders

Cash-strapped Congress gets fresh I-T notice of Rs 1,800 crore

Ajay Maken addresses a press conference

CBI files chargesheet against 20 institutes, 105 individuals in Himachal Pradesh multi-crore scholarship scam

CBI files chargesheet against 20 institutes, 105 individuals in Himachal Pradesh multi-crore scholarship scam

22 educational institutions were on CBI radar in the scholar...


Cities

View All