Mumbai: Medical officers from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) are busy spending their time at spas, wellness and ayurveda centres. But for those who think the officials are merely relaxing, they are mistaken. They are carrying out a survey of the various spas, naturopathy, ayurvedic centers and wellness clinics mushrooming across the city in order to find the number of institutes that would fall under the Central government's Clinical Establishments (Registration and Regulation) Act.
Senior officials had a meeting with the medical officers on Monday asking them to find the number of such centres operating in each ward. "In anticipation of the Act coming into force from April, we are carrying out a complete survey to check how many institutes would fall under the purview of the Act," said Dr Santosh Revankar, deputy executive health officer, BMC.
According to the Act, all such centres operating would fall under the civic health department and allow the officials from the BMC to carry out inspections and keep a check on their functioning, said a BMC official. "By making these centres fall under the act, we will be able to keep a check on the activities and carry out regular inspections just like we do at eateries," explained a health officer. The officer added that even blood banks fall under the control of the BMC.
However, the Indian Medical Association (IMA) is upset with the stipulations of the Act, as they claim that it puts all branches of medicine under the purview of a single Act, which is unfair, as the branches vary from each other in many different ways. "This act will allow ayurveda, naturopathy centres and spas to equate themselves with hospitals and nursing homes," said Dr S Uttare, former president of IMA.
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