Delhi health bill being finalized, directions issued to bring uniformity in functioning of pathological labs: Delhi Govt to HC

It is further submitted that Delhi Health Bill, 2022 has been drafted by the Committee constituted by the Respondent Department along with the Directorate General of Health Services comprising eminent members like Dean, MAMC; MD, Lok Nayak Hospital; DGHS; MD, Dr. BSA Hospital; Principal, Nehru Homeopathic Hospital; RDHS, Central District; RDHS, North District; Associate Professor, A&U Tibia College; President, Indian Medical Association and President, Delhi Medical Council.

Earlier the Delhi High Court had issued a notice to the AAP government on a PIL seeking the closure of all unauthorized pathological and diagnostic laboratories being run by unqualified laboratory technicians in the national capital.

The petitioner, Bijon Kumar Misra, through his counsels Shashank Deo Sudhi and Dr Shashi Bhushan, had requested the court to implement the Clinical Establishments (Registration and Regulation) Act urgently in 2010 in the national capital region.

The petition claimed that the National Accreditation Board accredits only 10 percent of the pathological labs and diagnostic centres in Delhi for Laboratories (NABL), an autonomous body of the Quality Council of India (QCI), and the remaining are being operated illegally.

The petitioner, in the PIL, stated that the diagnostic centres and pathological labs are the backbones of the health system and the entire treatment of a person depends on such clinical reports. Hence, it is important that the government takes appropriate measures in order to have quality diagnostic centres and pathological labs.

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