Hospital, maternity homes, clinics in Gujarat will require registration under new Bill
Updated: Feb 21st, 2025
The much-anticipated Gujarat Clinical Establishment (Registration and Regulation) Amendment Bill - 2025 was presented in the Legislative Assembly on Friday.
A digital registry of all healthcare institutions, ranging from small clinics to large multi-speciality hospitals, laboratories, and imaging centres will be created to develop a public-centric policy, which will prove effective during emergencies.
Through registration, doctors with proper medical qualifications who practice ethically will receive the necessary legal backing.
Notably, Gujarat has witnessed two serious hospital scams in recent times including Khyati hospital’s PM-JAY scam and CCTV footage leak in Rajkot’s Payal maternity home.
The bill includes provisions to prevent the registration of medical institutions that do not meet the required standards and to regulate such institutions through penalties in case of violations.
Hospitals, maternity homes, nursing homes, dispensaries, clinics, sanatoriums, as well as laboratories and medical facilities that provide pathological, bacteriological, genetic, radiological, chemical, or biological testing services will be required to register under this law and obtain certification.
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