Bill passed for quality healthcare
Paving the way for regulating healthcare costs in the country, the Parliament on Tuesday passed the Clinical Establishments (Registration and Regulation) Bill, 2010. Health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said that the Centre is hoping that the through the legislation, it will be able to determine the “minimum standards’’ and “range of
charges’’ for various medical procedures both in the private and public sector. Once categorisation takes place to prescribe minimum standards, we can prescribe a range of costs, he said.
The bill seeks to make it binding on all clinical establishments in four states and Union Territories to register themselves with the government. “The law seeks to fill up the gaps for time-bound and quality medical treatment,” Mr Azad said in the Rajya Sabha in his reply to the debate on the bill. The Lok Sabha has already passed the draft legislation.
Initially, the bill after it becomes a law, will be applicable in Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Himachal Pradesh and Sikkim and all UTs. Since Parliament has no power to make laws relating to the state subjects, it is doing so at the behest of these four states.
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