Definition

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires. - (a) "medicare service" means the act of providing medical treatment and care including antenatal and postnatal care in connection with child birth or anything connected therewith; or nursing care in any form to persons suffering from sickness, injury or infirmities whether of body or mind ; (b) "medicare service institutions" means the institutions providing Medicare to people which are under the control of State Govt. or Central govt. or Local bodies, including any private hospital having facilities for treatment of the sick and used for their reception or stay; any private maternity home where women are usually accommodated for the purpose of confinement and ante-natal and post-natal care in connection with child birth or anything connected therewith; and any private nursing home used or intended to be used, for the reception and accommodation of persons suffering from any sickness, injury or infirmity whether of body or mind and providing treatment or nursing or both of them ; (c) "medicare service persons" in relation to a Medicare service institution shall include - (i) registered medical practitioner, working in medicare service institutions (including those having provisional registration); (ii) registered nurses; (iii) medical student; (iv) nursing students; and (v) paramedical workers; (d) "medical student" means a student, who is undergoing training or studies in medical profession, on duty; (e) "nursing student" means a student, who is undergoing training or studies in nursing profession on duty: (f) "offender" means any person who either by himself or as a member or as a leader of a group of persons or organization commits or attempts to commit or abets or incites the commission of violence under this Act; (g) "para medical worker" means a person, who assists the medicare service person providing medicare services, on duty; (h) "property" means any property, movable or immovable or medical equipment or medical machinery owned by or in possession of, or under the control of, any medicare service person or medicare service institution ; (i) "violence" means activities of causing any harm, injury or endangering the life or intimidation, obstruction or hindrance to any medicare service person while discharging his duty in the medicare service institution, or damage to property in medicare Service institution.