Andhra Pradesh Legislation to Regulate Health Care Organizations - A Critical Study
Orient Journal of Law and Social Sciences Volume V, Issue 5
5 Pages Posted: 16 Jun 2016
Date Written: April 2011
Abstract
The Act provides for the registration and regulation of private medical care establishment including corporate hospitals, which are administered and maintained by "professionally qualified" persons. This legislative measure is intended to have control over medical care establishments and bring about greater awareness to comply with rules and regulations. The need of the hour is to check malpractices in hospitals and curb several ills in the administration of hospitals. The Act does not apply to hospitals constituted by statutes by Central, State or other Local authorities. In other words, these hospitals enjoy immunity from the control of authorities constituted by it. There is no denial of the fact that the some of the hospitals established by government or local authorities also witnessed cases of negligence or irregularities and malpractices which need control and supervision under the Act. It would have been better to provide for registration of these hospitals as well, and they could have been exempted from payment of registration fees.
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