Chapter X BASE HOSPITALS

A City Council and a District Council shall entrust the work of providing or directing the life support system or limited life support system and pre-hospital care system to a hospital situate, in the city or, as the case may be, in the district, by a contract entered into with the management of the hospital.

The City Council and the District Council shall prepare and maintain a register of base hospitals to which the Council has entrusted the work of providing or directing the life support system or limited life support system and pre-hospital care system.

Every base hospital shall--

1. (a) establish and maintain medical equipments for providing or directing the life support system or limited life support system and pre-hospital care system;
2. (b) provide separate accommodation to be used for the aforesaid purpose to be known as “the Emergency Department”;
3. (c) employ a full or part time physician or surgeon, as a Director of Emergency Department of the hospital, who is enrolled on the State Medical Register and who possesses the medical qualification of Master of Surgery (General Surgery or Orthopedic Surgery) granted by a university or institution specified in the First Schedule to the Medical Council Act,1956 and who has substantial experience in the practice of trauma care or emergency medicine;
4. (d) employ and maintain staff consisting of medical, para-medical, general medical technicians and such other persons as it may consider necessary and such staff shall perform their duties under the supervision and control of the Director of Emergency Department for the purpose of carrying out its duties under the contract with the City Council or as the case may be, District Council;
5. (e) maintain one or more ambulances of the nature specified in Chapter XI for providing the emergency medical services;
6. (f) provide easy access to emergency medical services to persons who are in need of treatment in medical emergency; and
7. (g) perform such other duties as may be specified in the bye-laws.

The base hospital shall provide emergency medical services to every person irrespective of his religion, race, caste, sex, decent, place of birth, residence or any of them.

The base hospital shall generally carry out its duties subject to supervision and control of the City Council or, as the case may be, the District Council.