Duties and responsibilities of clinical establishments

Every clinical establishment shall perform the following duties and responsibilities, namely:— (a) administer first aid and take other life saving or stabilizing emergency measures in all medico-legal or potentially medico-legal cases such as road accidents, accidental or induced burns or poisoning or criminal assaults and the like when the victims present themselves at the clinical establishment; (b) participate in the implementation of all National and State health programmes in such manner as the Government may specify, from time to time, and furnish periodical reports thereon to the authorities specified therein; (c) maintain medical records in such form and in such manner as may be prescribed for the respective system of medicine; (d) carry out necessary action to prevent the spread of communicable diseases and to control non-communicable diseases, as the Government may direct, from time to time; and (e) such other duties and responsibilities, as may be prescribed.