Mumbai, July 15: Indian Medical Association today opposed the Clinical Establishment Bill claiming it would unleash a licence raj and affect family physicians the most.
IMA demanded freeze on its implementation and initiate a nationwide debate. It also demanded exemption of healthcare institutions run by individual doctors from this Act.
The Clinical Establishment Bill was passed by the Lok Sabha.
The proposed Act would unleash a license raj and eliminate family physicians who provide low-cost healthcare, the IMA Mumbai chapter president Shivkumar Utture said.
IMA secretary Rajendra Trivedi said that anyway many young medical graduates tend to shun family practice and prefer to be employed in speciality hospitals. “Regulations and license raj will further this tendency,” he added.
The Act calls for setting up of a National Council which will classify, determine and develop standards of clinical establishments and also develop standards.
–Agencies