Obligation of Government.

The Government shall have the following general obligations, by enhancing the quantum of the resources in time bound realization of health and well-being of every resident in the State:-

1. (a) to formulate and prescribe a model of public health known as “Rajasthan Model of Public Health”;
2. (b) to make appropriate provision in the State budget;
3. (c) to develop and institutionalize Human Resource Policy for Health to ensure availability and equitable distribution of doctors, nurses and other ancillary health professionals and workers at all levels of healthcare as may be prescribed;
4. (d) to set up the quality audit and grievance redressal mechanisms as may be prescribed;
5. (e) to align all health services and schemes to strengthen a system of health services to empower and make residents aware for preventive, promotive and protective health care, not merely an absence of disease;
6. (f) to lay down standards for quality and safety of all levels of health care as may be prescribed;
7. (g) to make availability of Government funded healthcare services as per distance or geographical area or considering population density which includes health care institutions, free medicine, test and diagnostics of notified items and ambulance services as per standards as may be prescribed;
8. (h) to ensure that there is no any direct or indirect denial to anyone for any government funded health care services at such Public Health Care Institutions and designated health care establishment and such guaranteed services as may be prescribed;
   • (i) to mobilize resources and frame plans or policies to carry out obligations under this Act;
9. (j) to set up co-ordination mechanisms among the relevant government departments to facilitate nutritionally adequate and safe food, adequate supply of safe drinking water and sanitation;
10. (k) to institute effective measures to prevent, treat and control epidemics and other public health emergencies; and
11. (l) to take appropriate measures to inform, educate and empower people about health issues.