Definitions.

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-

1. (a) “accidental emergency” means any unforeseen, unexpected or unintentional occurrence of an event which results in the risk of death or injury to any person and includes road, rail, water or air accident;
2. (b) “bioterrorism” means the international use of any microorganism, virus, infectious substance (including toxins), or biological product that may be engineered as a result of biotechnology, or any naturally occurring or bioengineered component of any such microorganism, virus, infectious substance, or biological product to causes, death, disease or other biological malfunction in a human, an animal, a plant, or another living organism;
3. (c) “clinical establishment” means establishments defined as a clinical establishment under clause
4. (c) of section 2 of the Clinical Establishment (Registration and Regulation) Act, 2010 (Central Act No. 23 of 2010);
5. (d) “designated health care centres” means health care centres as prescribed in the rules;
6. (e) “emergency” means accidental emergency, emergency due to snake bite/animal bite and any other emergency decided by State Health Authority;
7. (f) “emergency care” means any reasonable measure to render first- aid, advise or assistance to an injured person of an accident or incident of crime or any other emergency;
8. (g) “emergency obstetric care” means to treat (and therefore save the life of) a woman experiencing a complication of pregnancy or childbirth;
9. (h) “epidemic” means occurrence of cases of disease in excess of what is usually expected for a given period of time and includes any reference to “disease outbreak” [never the less