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| 223 diagnostic centres, clinics registered in J&K | | Calling attention notice | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Mar 28: Minister of State for Health and Medical Education, Javid Ahmad Dar today said that as many as 223 registered diagnostic centres, including X-Ray units, ultrasonography units and laboratory clinics are operating in the state.
Replying to a Calling Attention Notice by Subash Gupta in Legislative Council, he said all private clinical establishments, diagnostic centres and laboratories are registered under the provisions of the Jammu and Kashmir Nursing Homes and Clinical Establishments (Registration and Licensing) Act, 1963.
He said the ultrasonography units are also governed by the pre-natal sex selection / determination regulation Act, 2002, which in force in the state. Registrations are granted to all private clinical establishments only after they fulfill necessary requirements and complete all formalities as envisaged under the said Act.
Minister said that all such establishments are regularly monitored by the designated authorities. Directors of Health Services, Jammu and Kashmir are designated as the “supervisory Authority” for their respective Divisions vide SRO-169 of 2010 for purpose of regulation and supervision of the private nursing homes and clinical establishments.
He said that besides, the teams, which have been constituted at the directorate level headed by Deputy Directors of the respective Directorate and at the district level under the Chief Medical Officer concerned, are responsible for monitoring and conducting surprise visits and inspection of the private clinical establishments to defect any violation of the Rules and norms.
At least five private nursing homes, which were found violating the norms, have been sealed recently. Sharing the concern of the member regarding health hazard and pollution of environment, if any, caused by these centres, Directors of Health Services, Jammu and Kashmir have been directed to immediately take stock of the situation in detail so as to detect the same and take immediate preventive measures.
He said that so far as the matter of generation of bio-medical waste in these diagnostic centres is concerned, it is one of the conditions in the norms that every diagnostic centre (clinical laboratory) should obtain permission from Jammu and Kashmir Pollution Control Board, if the number of samples in laboratory exceeds one thousand per month.
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