Definitions.

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires- (a) "Medical Profession" means profession including all the branches of medical and paramedical sciences, viz.Allopathy, Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy (AYUSH) Dentistry, Nursing and Physiotherapy. (b) "Medicare Service Institution" means an institution, providing Medicare service to people either in Medicare Service Institution or through Mobile Medicare Unit or by arranging medical checkup camps, under the control of the Central Government/State Government/a local body or any private hospital having facilities for treatment of the sick and used for their reception or stay in any private maternity home, where women are usually received and accommodated for the purpose of confinement and ante-natal and post-natal care in connection with the child birth or anything connected therewith, and any private nursing home used or intended to be used for the reception and accommodation of person suffering from any sickness, injury or infirmity, whether of body or mind, and providing of treatment or nursing or both of them and includes convalescent home, etc; (c) "Medicare Service Person" in relation to Medicare Service Institution means a Registered medical practitioner (including provisional registration holder), a registered nurse, a medical student, a nursing student and a paramedical worker and includes any person directly or indirectly employed and working in such institution; (d) "Mobile Medical Unit" means an ambulance equipped with medical equipment, used for providing Medicare services; (e) "Offender" means any person, who either by himself or as a member or leader of a group of persons or organization commits or attempts to commit or abets the commission of violence under this Act; (f) "Para Medical Worker" means a person, who assists the Medicare Service Person Providing Medicare services;