Technicians running Path labs will have to have PG Pathology to Countersign reports, Re-iterates Bombay HC
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Mumbai: Reiterating the stand of the courts, that a PG in Pathology Doctor is a must to run any path lab that is providing reports to patients, the Bombay High Court disposed off three PILs that were filed in this regard.
The issue of illegal pathology laboratories running without the presence of any doctor has been long pressing in the state. According to the Maharashtra Association of Practicing Pathologists and Microbiologists (MAPPM), there are nearly 11,000 laboratories in the State, of which nearly 70% are run by technicians.
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The court noted that the matter has been repeatedly discussed by many courts
The issue of illegal pathology laboratories running without the presence of any doctor has been long pressing in the state. According to the Maharashtra Association of Practicing Pathologists and Microbiologists (MAPPM), there are nearly 11,000 laboratories in the State, of which nearly 70% are run by technicians.
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The court noted that the matter has been repeatedly discussed by many courts
Though the three captioned Civil Applications seeking impleadment are listed before us today, having heard learned counsel for the parties and having perused the averments in the Public Interest Litigation, we propose to dispose of the Public Interest Litigation itself for the reason challenge in the Public Interest Litigation is to orders passed by the State Government in the State of Maharashtra prohibiting paramedics from issuing pathology reports and to take action against them.
The issue has been settled by a decision of the Gujarat High Court on 17.09.2010 in SCA No.17485 of 2006 and the order
passed by the Supreme Court on 12.12.2017 in SLP(C) No.28529 of 2010 as per which the opinion of the Medical Council of India that Laboratory Reports can be countersigned only by a medical practitioner having post graduate qualification in pathology was found to be correct.
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