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Mamata introduces Bill to regulate private hospitals

Aimed at making the private healthcare segment more transparent and regulate arbitrary billing

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Avishek Rakshit Kolkata
In a first of its kind initiative in India, the West Bengal government on Friday passed the West Bengal Clinical Establishments (Registration, Regulation and Transparency) Bill, 2017 — aimed at making the private healthcare segment more transparent and regulate arbitrary billing.

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee — who holds the health portfolio — thinks it will become a model for the rest of the country.

"This Bill aims at bringing transparency, ending harassment of patients and taking steps to stop medical negligence," she said while presenting the Bill in the Assembly.

In case, the private hospitals and nursing homes fail to

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