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| Diagnostic Centres Association left out, 2200 files waiting for renewal/registration | | District Registering Authority of Clinical Establishments in JK lacks credibility | | Jehangir Rashid
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Dec 6: The decentralization of registration or renewal of clinical establishments and nursing homes in the union territory of Jammu & Kashmir is yet to take off since the authority set up in this regard is facing credibility crisis since it does not have backing of important stakeholders.
Sources told Early Times that no representation whatsoever has been given to the Private Diagnostic Centres Association of Jammu & Kashmir in the authority set up by the government in this regard. This is despite the fact that the association is a registered one and has its base across the union territory.
"It is surprising that neither the diagnostic centres nor the nursing homes have been given any representation in the authority set up by the government for registration or renewal of clinical establishments in Jammu & Kashmir. Due representation should have been given at least to the diagnostic centres association since it has a huge base across the union territory," said sources.
In May this year the Health & Medical Education department established an authority for each district for registration of clinical establishments. The authority would have the district magistrate as chairperson with District Health Officer or Chief Medical Officer being the convener. The concerned SSP, a senior level officer of the local self government and a representative from a medical association would be the members of the authority.
"In exercise of powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 10 of Clinical Establishments (Registration and Regulation Act), 2010 read with rule 8 of Clinical Establishments (Central Government) Rules, 2012, the Government hereby establishes an authority to the called District Registering Authority for each district of union territory of Jammu & Kashmir for registration of clinical establishments in the respective districts," reads the notification issued under S.O 167 on May 19, 2020.
Referring to the composition of the authority the notification reads that concerned District Magistrate would be the Chairperson, District Health Officer/Chief Medical Officer (Convener), Senior Superintendent of Police or Superintendent of Police or his nominee as the case may be to be nominated by District Magistrate of the concerned district for a tenure of two years (member), a senior level officer of the local self government at the district level to be nominated by district magistrate of the concerned district for a tenure of two years (member) and one representative from a medical association or body having presence preferably in the district or within the UT as the case may be to be nominated by the district magistrate of the concerned district for a tenure of two years.
Sources said that delay in the whole process has led to a situation where 2200 files relating to registration as well as renewal of diagnostic centres and nursing homes in the union territory are pending. It means that 95 percent of diagnostic centres and nursing homes are working without registration in Jammu & Kashmir as on date.
"In the past provisional registration used to be given to clinical establishments for a period of six months or year. Once the period was over the supervising authority would check the establishment and would issue the permanent registration certificate in case everything was in place. If there was some loophole the owner was asked to correct the same, but with the new arrangement such people have also been kept waiting," said sources.
Sources said that it is humanely impossible that a district level officer would take the pains and visit the clinical establishments and that too in the absence of concerned stakeholders. The diagnostic centres association needs to be taken on board since the members of the association are connected with the field and they know about the nuances associated with the overall working of the system. |
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