AHPBMT seeks removal of mandatory requirement of doctor’s advice for medical test from draft CEA Rules, 2019
The Association of the Hospital and Practicing Biochemists and Medical Technologists (AHPBMT) has sought removal of mandatory requirement of a doctor’s advice to undertake medical tests from draft Clinical Establishments (Central Government) Second Amendment Rules, 2019. The draft amendment released by Union health and family welfare ministry last month says in serial no. 1 that “Medical tests should normally be undertaken on the advice of a doctor” . “This is utter violation of the Constitution of India Article 21 “Right to Life and Personal Liberty” when a person is deprived of matters concerning to his/her life and personal liberty by the state or if a citizen is prevented from liberty of choice of healthcare. It violets the “Charter of Patients’ Rights” prepared by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), and Consumer Protection Act 1986. Patients with chronic illnesses, hereditary and lifestyle diseases require frequent tests and even healthy person needs checkups...