Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 5:58 PM
Public Notice issued to all doctors and hospitals
Ludhiana: April 30, 2015: (Punjab Screen Bureau):
Punjab Medical
Council has asked all the doctors, institutions and hospitals to display the
rate list for various treatments in accordance with the Indian Medical
(Professional Conduct, Etiquette and Ethics) Regulations 2002.
In a Public Notice issued by the PMC
President Dr GS Grewal And Registrar Dr Manjit Kaur Mohi recently, all
registered medical practitioners, institutions and organizations have been advised
to implement the statutory regulations in letter and spirit.
They said, any violation thereof shall
constitute professional misconduct liable for disciplinary action as deemed in
law including but not limited to the removal of the name of the registered
medical practitioner from the Medical Register, altogether or for a specified
period.
Giving details about the guidelines,
they said, a physician should announce his fees before rendering service and
not after the operation or treatment is under way. A physician shall clearly
display the fees and other charges on the board of his chamber and the hospital
and/or Provide a computerized receipt of every payment made.
They said, all charges including
consultation fees, medical devices rates like stent, orthopedic implants and
other implanted devices, operative fees, laboratory investigation rates,
radiology investigation rates, ward expenditure for indoor patients as well as
any other performed medical or surgical procedure should be displayed in
transparent and explicit manner of the benefit of the patients and general
public and/or a computerized receipt given for every payment.
The guidelines also clarify that a
physician shall not give, solicit or receive nor shall offer to give solicit or
receive any fit, gratuity, commission or bonus in consideration of or return
for the referring , recommending or procuring of any patient for medical,
surgical or other treatment.
The patients must get the computerized
receipt from the hospital in accordance with the rates displayed in the
hospital or by the doctor. He said, in case they do not get the receipt for the
entire amount that means someone else is pocketing commission and they are made
to pay for it.
