1["(1) Every clinical establishment registered or deemed to be registered under this Act shall comply with such requirements in relation to patient tretment, location, accommodation, equipment, instruments, personnel as may be prescribed;
(2) The clinical establishment shall provide for such minimum standard of services as may be prescribed including but not limited to minimum standard of accommodation, number and norms for service providers ( like registered medical practitioner, registered nurse, other paramedical staff and other categories of staff with such qualification as may be prescribed), norms for emergency and referral care, norms for use of prescribed equipment, disposal of biomedical wastes and maintenance of such records and registers may be prescribed :
Provided that the clinical establishments which have not maintained the fire prevention and life safety measures and the standards to be prescribed after the date of commencement of the Odisha Clinical Establishments (Control and regulation) Amendment Act, 2016 shall, within six months of the date of commencement of such prescription, comply with such standard and the fire prevention and life safety measures:
provided further that for compliance of fire prevention and life safety measures, a further period not exceeding six months shall be allowed by the authority as may be prescribed.
(3) The certificate holder shall maintain the fire prevention and life safety and such other measures in good condition at all times in accordance with the provisions as provided by or under the provisions of any law time being in force.
(4) Every clinical establishment shall undertake to provide within the Staff and facilities available, such medical examination
1. Substituted by Orissa Gazette Extraordinary No. 2203 dt. 1.12.2016 and treatment as may be required to stabilize the emergency medical condition of any individual who comes or is brought to such clinical establishment and gives an undertaking by himself or by his attendant to be treated in the said clinical establishment.
Explanation - For the purpose of this section, the expression "to stabilize" with its grammatical variations and cognate expression, means eith respect to an emergency medical condition, to provide such medical treatment for improvement of the condition as be necessary.
(5) The Clinical Establishments to which Government land has been provided such clinical establishment shall provide free treatment to presons below proverty Line as indoor and outdoor patients with such proportion as my be decided by the State Government, from time to time."]