Definitions

(a) "Clinical Establishment" means a hospital, maternity home, nursing home, dispensary, clinic, laboratory or an institution by whatever name called that offers services, facilities or treatment requiring diagnosis, treatment or care for illness, injury, deformity, abnormality or pregnancy in any recognised system of medicine established and administered or maintained by any person or body of persons, whether incorporated or not. (b) "Prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act. (c) "Register" means to register a clinical establishment under the provisions of this Act. (d) "Registering Authority" means an authority appointed by the State Government for the purpose of this Act and includes any officer or body of persons authorized by the State Government. (e) "State Government" means the State Government of Chhattisgarh. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires.- (a) "Act" means the Chhattisgarh State Upcharyagriha Tatha Rogopchar Sambandhi Sthapanaye Anugyapan Adhiniyam, 2010. (b) "Clinical establishment" means a medical laboratory, a Physiotherapy establishment or clinic or a Hospital or any other establishment analogous to any of them, by whatever name called. (c) "Clinic" means any premise having facilities for treatment of sick and used for their reception and not stay. (d) "Hospital" means any premise having facilities for treatment of sick and used for their reception or stay. (e) "Maternity Homes" means any premise used or intended to be used for the reception of pregnant women or women for delivery or immediately after childbirth. (f) "Medical Laboratory" means an establishment manned by qualified pathologist and radiologist where Bio-Medical tests such as, hematology, biochemistry, serological tests, bacteriological, cytology, histology genetic investigations or any other diagnostic tests are carried out. (g) "Nursing Home" means a place where patients are treated as inpatients with facilities for admission as inpatients for treatment of illness without or with surgery or conduct of delivery and also include other gynaecological operation, where women are received or accommodated for the purpose of sterilization, hysterectomy, or medical termination of pregnancy etc. with or without overnight inpatient facilities. Nursing Homes would include any inpatient medical clinic, nursing home, maternity home, hospital, old age homes and day care centers (any intervention which would require observation and on-going care/monitoring). (h) "Physiotherapy Establishment" means an establishment where massaging, electro-therapy, hydrotherapy, medical gymnastics or any other similar procedures are usually carried out for the purpose of treatment of disease or of infirmity or for improvement whether by modern medicine or Indian system of medicine. (i) "Qualified Medical Practitioner" means a medical practitioner registered in any State in India under any law for the time being in force for the registration or medical practitioners. (j) "Qualified Dentist" means a person possessing qualification recognized by the Dental Council Act. (k) "Radiologist" means a medical practitioner that deals with the study and application of imaging technology like X-ray and radiation to diagnose and treat disease related therewith. (l) "Qualified Midwife" means a midwife or an auxiliary nurse-midwife who possesses any of the qualifications included in sections or C, as the case may be, of part I of the Schedule to the Indian Nursing Council Act, 1947 (48 of 1947), and who is enrolled as a mid-wife or as an auxiliary nurse-midwife in a State. (m) "Qualified Nurse" means a person who possesses the qualification included in section A of Part I of the Schedule to the Indian Nursing Council Act 1947 (48 of 1947) and who is enrolled as a nurse. (n) "Register" means a register maintained under this Act and the expression "registered" and "registration" shall be construed accordingly. (o) "Supervisory Authority" means the person or authority appointed by the State Government by notification to perform all or any of the functions of the supervising authority as specified under this Act. (p) "Notifiable disease" means a disease which a Registered Medical Practitioner is required to notify to the Chief Medical and Health Officer or his area under the law for the time being in force. (q) "Trained Nurse" means nurses who have taken training of six months duration in government recognized institutions. She will only work under the supervision of qualified nurse as above defined.