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The majority of large hospitals and some of the Nursing Homes are registered as
public trusts. Such registration entitles them to income tax exemption and other
benefits. These hospitals have also added privileges like duty exemptions while
importing drugs and medical equipment and building construction relaxations such
as additional floor space index, cheap land, etc. The Public Trusts Acts which
operate in Delhi and Bombay, as also in many other places provide that if the
State has given certain amount of aid to ‘charitable’ hospitals these hospitals
are liable to treat certain quota of patients totally free and certain other
quota of patients on a subsidized basis.
Obligation to Provide Emergency
Health Care
Proper medical aid within the scope of the equipments and facilities
available at the Health facility and hospitals should be provided to such
patients and proper records of the treatment given should be maintained and
preserved. The guiding principle should be to ensure that no emergency case is
denied medical care.
Medico Legal Cases Right to Emergency Care during Accidents: Whenever any medico-legal case attends
the hospital, the medical officer on duty should inform the Duty Constable,
name, age, sex of the patient and place and time of occurrence of the incident,
and should start the required treatment of the patient. Onward transmission of
information is the duty of the police officials.
The medico-legal cases coming to hospital on their own will not be denied the
treatment by the hospital nor the case will be referred to other hospitals
because the incident has occurred in the area which belongs to the zone of any
other hospital.
There is no legal barrier for a medical professional when he is called upon or
requested to attend to an injured person needing his medical assistance
immediately. The effort to save the person should be the top priority not only
of the medical professional but every one concerned. | 