(1) The clinical establishments shall maintain medical records of patients treated by it and health information and statistics in respect of national programmes and furnish the same to the concerned programme officers periodically. The minimum medical records to be maintained and nature of information to be provided by the clinical establishments will be as per the format Form–“REG”.
(2) Copies of all records and statistics shall be kept with the clinical establishments concerned for at least 3 years or in accordance with any other relevant Act in force at the time as required under section 12 (1) (iii) of the Act.
(3) All clinical establishments shall be responsible for submission of information and statistics in the time of emergency or disaster or epidemic situation.
(4) The Government may notify from time to time, the nature of information that needs to be furnished by the clinical establishments including other diseases notified for this purpose along with the prescribed interval.