| |September 20189and managerial indicators hospital wise, state wise and country.Healthcare in India features a universal health-care care system run by the constituent states and territories. Law is an obligation on the part of soci-ety imposed by the competent authority, and non-compliance may lead to punishment in the form of monetary fine or imprisonment or both. The earliest known code of laws called the code of Hammurabi governed the various aspects of health practices in-cluding the fees payable to physician for satisfac-tory services. The modern version of Hippocratic Oath (called the declaration of Geneva), devised by the WHO after the Second World War and is accepted by international medical fraternity. The first legal recognition and registration for the Indian systems of medicine came when the Bombay Medical Practi-tioner' Act was passed in 1938. Laws governing the commissioning of hospital are the laws to ensure that the hospital facilities are created after due pro-cess of registration, the facilities created are safe for the public using them, have at least the minimum essential infrastructure for the type and volume of workload anticipated and are subject to periodic in-spections to ensure compliance. Compliance and License Requirements for Healthcare Companies in IndiaThe Ministry of Health and Family Welfare acts as a watchdog for regulating the healthcare industry in India. The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) renders technical advice on all Medical and Public Health matters and is involved in the imple-mentation of various Health services. The Phar-maceutical Industry is one of the areas which come under the ambit of healthcare compliances and is extensively regulated by the following: · Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO) · National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) · Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) · Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) Laws Governing the Commis-sioning of Hospitals, these are the laws to ensure that the hospital facilities are created after due process of regis-tration, the facilities created are safe for the public using them, have at least the minimum essential infrastructure for the type and volume of workload anticipated, and are subject to periodic inspections to ensure compliance. Laws governing to the qualification/practice and conduct of professionals Laws Governing to Sale, Storage of Drugs and SafeMedication, these are laws to control the us-age of drugs, chemicals, blood, blood products, prevent misuse of dangerous drugs, regulate the sale of drugs through licenses, prevent adulter-ation of drugs and provide for punitive action against the offenders. Laws Governing Management of Patients, these are the laws for setting standards and norms for conduct of medical professional practice, regulat-ing/ prohibiting performance of certain procedure, prevention of unfair practices and control of public health problems/ epidemic disease. They deals with the management of emergencies, medico legal cas-es and all aspects related there to including dying declaration, and conduct of autopsy and the types of professional negligence.Laws Governing Environmental Safety, these are the laws aimed at protection of environment through prevention of air, water, surface, noise pol-lution and punishment of offenders. A hospital administrator should be aware about the licenses that are essentially required and to re-new them as and when required. Periodic Reports and Returns as legal commitment he should be aware about the reports and returns that are essentially required by different agencies with fixed periodicity. The health legislations are very few as compared to the size and problems in the health care sector. There is a need for having a compre-hensive health care act, framed in order to gear the entire health care sector to the objectives laid down in the different policy in India. Most of the common medico legal situations arise out on non-compliance with these rules and regulations. If a hospital or doctor ac-quaints well with these rules and regulations and follows them sincerely, he/ she would be on the right side of the law. Neeraj Lal
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