IMA to discuss CEA at panel meet

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IMA to discuss CEA at panel meet

Thursday, 31 July 2014 | Gajendra Singh Negi | Dehradun

The Indian Medical Association (IMA) would discuss the Clinical Establishment Act (CEA) in its working Committee meeting scheduled next month and would suggest the amendments.

The General Secretary of IMA, Dr DD Choudhary told The Pioneer that based on the discussions of the working committee the IMA would put its suggestions regarding the amendments to the Uttarakhand Government on August 25.The issue of implementation of the CEA in the state is pending for more than two years.The opposition and clout of private hospitals and private practitioners is believed to be behind the delay in the implementation of the act in the State. 

The States of Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Sikkim, and all Union Territories implemented the act on March 1, 2012 vide Gazette notification dated 28th February, 2012. later the states of Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Jharkhand also adopted the act but the Uttarakhand Government is lingering the implementation of the Act.The central Government in a recent communiqué has asked the state government to implement the act before October this year otherwise it has threatened to stop the central aid for health.

After the implementation of the act it would be compulsory for all the clinical establishments like doctor’s clinic, private hospitals, diagnostic centres, homeopathic doctors and Ayush doctors to get them registered with the state Council which would have health secretary as Chairman and Director of Health services as member- secretary.The act seeks to regulate all clinical establishments with a view to prescribing the minimum standards of facilities and services provided by them.

Under the act the clinical establishments should keep a record of the all the patients and disclose and display the type of services they give.These establishments would be bound to disclose the number and qualification of the staff they are employing and display the rate lists clearly. The former President of Provincial Medical and Health Services, Dr B C Ramola told The Pioneer that the act would be a boon for the people of the State.

He said that since the act envisages that all clinical establishments should clearly disclose the type of system of medicine they follow, it would stop the malpractice of crosspathy. Ramola claimed that quacks would be exposed after the implementation of this act.The private practitioners and establishments however are skeptical about the post CEA scenario in the state if it is implemented in its current shape.

The Owner of Ahuja Pathology lab, Dr Alok Ahuja told The Pioneer that the government should consider the typical geographic and social conditions of the state before implementing the act.He said that the medical fraternity has serious reservation on the proposal to make the district Magistrate the regulating authority under the Act.

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