PANJIM: The Cabinet on Wednesday cleared the Goa Medicare Service Personnel and Medicare Service Institutions Bill giving protection to private medical practitioners from attacks and assault while administering services.
All private medical practitioners having registered clinics and in all branches of medicine will be covered under this legislation.
“This Bill will be introduced in the Assembly,” Parrikar said at a post Cabinet briefing.
Explaining the logic behind such a Bill, Parrikar said that private medical practitioners face the prospect of being attacked or assaulted by unruly persons who bring patients to clinics at night.
He said that the Bill was being introduced following recommendations from the Medical Council and was in many ways different from protection available under the existing laws.
It was pointed out that at times persons under the influence of alcohol, either accompanying a patient or in need of medical attention themselves get boisterous, assault medical personnel and damage property, machinery etc and thus the enactment of such law was needed to protect private medical practitioners.
Parrikar said, “Such a legislation is also in force in Maharashtra,” adding that the next session of the Assembly will deliberate on it.
