Lok Sabha Question No. 1803 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-02-11
Subject: Treatment of poor in private hospitals
Ministry: HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE
Asked by: M.K. Vishnu Prasad

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & FAMILY WELFARE

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.1803 TO BE ANSWERED ON 11 th  FEBRUARY, 2022

## TREATMENT OF POOR IN PRIVATE HOSPITALS

## 1803. DR. VISHNU PRASAD M.K.:

Will the MINISTER OF HEALTH & FAMILY WELFARE be pleased to state:

- (a)  whether the Government has put in any mechanism to regulate and monitor healthcare system/ practices in private sector and if so, the details there of;
- (b)  whether Government proposes to provide facilities to clinics run by single or few doctors to expand healthcare facilities and if so, the details thereof; and
- (c)    the  number  of  beds  that  are  exclusively  reserved  for  poor  in  every  private  hospital subsidised by the Government?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE (DR. BHARATI PRAVIN PAWAR)

(a) to (c): Public  Health  and  Hospitals  is  a  State  Subject.  It  is  for  the  concerned State/Union Territory (UT) Government to make and enforce norms to regulate private health care systems. Similarly, it is for the concerned State/UT Government to consider providing facilities to clinics run by single or few doctors to expand health care facilities or to monitor beds  reserved  for  poor  patients  in  private  hospitals,  which  take  subsidized  help  from  the Government.

The Government  of India, however, has enacted the Clinical Establishments (Registration and Regulation) Act, 2010 (CE Act, 2010) and notified Clinical Establishments (Central  Government) Rules,  2012  thereunder  to  provide  for  registration  and  regulation  of Government  (except  those  of  Armed  Forces)  as  well  as  private  clinical  establishments belonging to recognized systems of medicine.  The States / UTs which have adopted CE Act, 2010, are primarily responsible for regulating their hospitals including private hospitals as per provisions  of  the  Act  and  rules  thereunder  to  ensure  provision  of  affordable  and  quality healthcare to patients.  As per the Act, the clinical establishments are required to fulfill the conditions  of  minimum  standards  of  facilities  and  services,  minimum  requirement  of personnel,  maintenance  of  records  and  reports  and  other  conditions  including  ensuring compliance  to Standard  Treatment  Guidelines  (STGs)  issued  by  the  Central / State

Government  and  display  of  rates  charged  by  them  at  a  conspicuous  place.The  Clinical Establishments  Rules,  2012  also  provide  that  every  clinical  establishment  shall  maintain information and statistics in accordance with all other applicable laws in force and its rules. This includes rules, if any, on reservation for poor in every private hospital subsidized by the Government.The CE Act, 2010 also provides for cancellation of registration of hospitals, if the conditions of the registration are not complied with.  As on date, the CE act, 2010 has been adopted by 11 States and 7 UTs.  other 17 States and 1 UT have their own Act.

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