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Towards Medical Education
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Recog. Homoeop. Colleges
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Important Judgements
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Central Registration
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Code of Ethics
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PART III
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Accommodation
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General:
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The Homeopathic College shall be housed in a building which is located nearest to the teaching Homoeopathic Hospital. The College shall have its own land and building for running various departments and hospital with the prescribed number of beds with scope for expansion.
Central Library shall have space for a minimum of 100 students for reading, with ventilation and adequate space for stocking and display of books and journals, in addition to rooms for Librarian and staff.
Administrative block: Principal's room, staff room, College Council room, office Supritendent's room, record room, seperate common room for male and female students, canteen, a small sale outlet for books and common medicines etc.
Six lecture halls each with a seating capacity for 50-100 students.
College auditorium to accommodate 500-600 persons with proper acoustics.
Central Gas plant, maintenance room / workshop etc. shall also be provided.
Sanitary facilities shall be provided for teaching staff, students (male and female), technical and other staff.
Central Record Room.
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There shall be the following teaching Departments: |
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Anatomy |
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Physiology |
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Homoeopathic Pharmacy |
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Pathology & Microbiology |
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Community Medicine |
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Forensic Medicine and Toxicology |
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Practice of Medicine |
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Surgery |
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Gynecology and Obstetrics |
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Materia Medica & Therapeutics |
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Organon of Medicine |
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Case taking and Repertory |
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Teaching staff rooms: Each of the department shall have accommodation for the Professors, Readers, Lecturers, and Staff, and working accommodation for the non-teaching staff. |
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Research: Research room shall be provided for Professors, staff, and post-graduate students in the case of colleges with Post-graduate Department for the subject. |
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Seperate working room for each Post-graduate speciality shall be provided wherever Post-graduate teaching is available in the subject. |
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Library: Accommodation for departmental Library-cum-seminar room shall be provided in all the Departments. |
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The minimum requirement in individual Department shall be as under:
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Department of Anatomy |
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Dissection Hall - (i) It shall be specious enough to accommodate four dissection tables. Provision for ventilation and lighting shall be made. Mosaic Tanks for preservation of dissected parts and wash basins and a small office room attached to the dissection hall shall be provided. (ii) Accommodation and provision for storage of cadavers, maceration chambers, storeroom for instruments, chemical and bones and skeletons shall be made.
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Museum - Accommodation shall be provide for racks and shelves for storing and proper display of wet and dry specimens, models, revolving stands for skiagram and trolley tables.
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Demonstration Room - There shall be a demonstration room fitted with audio-visual aids to accommodate 50 students and located in proximity to the dissection hall and museum, with provision for shelves for skiagram and stereoscopic viewing boxes.
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Histology - Sufficient accommodation for workbenches fitted with water taps, sinks cupboards and electric points for 50 students. The room may face North.
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Department of Physiology and Biochemistry |
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Demonstration Room - There shall be a demonstration room to seat 50 students and with arrangements for audio-visual aids.
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Practical Class Rooms - Human Physiology room with adequate accommodation shall be provided to accommodate 50 students fpr blood studies, determination of basal metabolism, blood gas analysis, blood pressure measurements, testing of respiratory functions, recording of pulse and respiration and testing of special senses.
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Animal room and Frog tank shall be provided.
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Practical classroom for Biochemistry - Accommodation for Laboratory benches fitted with shelves and cupboards, water taps, sinks, electric and gas points for 50 students shall be provided. A store and equipment necessary for Biochemistry experiments shall be provided. Colleges where there is no seperate Biochemistry laboratory for the time being may develop such facility within a period of five years from the commencement of the Homoeopathy (Minimum Standards of Education) Amendment Regulations, 2002.
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Department of Homoeopathic Pharmacy |
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Demonstration Room - There shall be one demonstration room to accommodate about 50 students with arrangements for audio-visual aids.
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Laboratories : Sufficient accommodation shall be provided for laboratory tables with shelves and cupboard fitted with water taps and sinks on the table top with electric and gas points to accommodate 50 students. A store and equipment necessary for practical in pharmacy shall be provided.
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Herbarium for medicinal plants shall also be provided.
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Museum - With cupboards and shelves for storing and display of herbarium sheets, charts and specimens with adequate sitting arrangements for students shall be provided.
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College shall provide a medicinal plant garden in its vicinity with facility to grow plants used in Homoeopathic preparations.
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Department of Pathology and Microbiology |
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Laboratory : Tables with reagents, shelves, cupboards fitted with water taps and sinks on the table top with electric and gas points to accommodate 50 students with attached storeroom.
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In addition, service laboratories for all necessary investigations and suitable equipment shall be provided in the attached hospital.
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Demonstration Room - One room shall be provided to accommodate 50 students, with arrangements for audio-visual aids.
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Museum - Sufficient accommodation for show cases and cupboards for a minimum of 1000 specimens.
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Department of Community Medicine: |
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Museum - Adequate accommodation for the display of models, charts, specimens and other material comcerning communicable diseases, diet, Homoeopathic Prophylactics, National Health Programmes, Immunization, Community Health, Family Welfare, Bio-statistics, Sociology.
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Every Homoeopathic College adopt a minimum of one village in the periphery and make health camps with the students to make them aware of the community oriented problems and have atleast one attached Primary Health Centre.
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Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology |
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Museum - Adequate accommodation for display of medico-legal specimens, dangerous weapons, models, charts and audio-visual teaching material.
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Laboratory for examination of specimens.
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Clinical departments, (i.e. Practice of Medicine, Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Therapeutics, Organon of Medicine and Homoeopathic Philosophy (including History of Medicine, Case Taking and Repertory) shall be attached with the hospital where the hospital is in the unitary campus; and if the hospital is in a different premises adequate space for the teaching staff shall also be provided in College. Relevant audio-visual teaching aids / material shall also be provided in the concerned departmemts.
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The teaching Homoeopathic hospital shall provide facilities for imparting practical and clinical skills to make the clinical students self-reliant and confident to understand the clinical problem, diagnose the same with a great amount of accuracy, prescribe a rational medication. The students should also be made to understand the scope and limitation of the system. Facility shall be provided to inculcate a sense of research aptitude woth Homoeopathic medicine in various clinical fields, render service to the community oriented health problems. Facility shall also be provided to train management of emergencies and take active participation in calamities, life supportive systems and its handling. There shall be facility to handle all types of clinical cases. The hospital shall provide consultants from all fields of Medicine and Rehabilitation. While selecting the experts adequate care shall be taken to see that they have a sense of understanding in the basic principles of Homoeopathy. The Hospitals shall train the student sin appropriate diagnostic techniques, other supportive methodologies, research methodology, supervise the patients and to watch the limitations.
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The following essential components shall be available in a teaching Hospital: |
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The hospital shall have a well-equipped outpatient department with the sections of medicine (including acute and chronic diseases), surgery (including ear, nose and throat), Gynaecology and obstetrics, opthalmology, paedriatics, psychiatry, dental etc. The indoor and outpatient departments of the hospital shall be in running condition. Round the clock Emergency Department shall be provided.
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In addition to the accommodation mentioned, the hospital shall also provide the following: |
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Hospital Supritendent's office room with attached toilet, and retiring room, wherever necessary.
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Visitor's room with toilet facilities.
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Canteen
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Reception and Enquiry: This shall preferably be computerized and networked with other essential areas in the Hospital and College.
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Central Registration
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Statistics Department with computer facilities.
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Clinical department for Out Patients
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Clinical laboratory for investigation techniques The laboratory shall be equipped to undertake Pathological and Biochemical investigations for the hospital. Space for patients to wait for specimen collection shall be provided.
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An Emergency section with facility to reecive patients at any time of the day and night, manned by House-Physicians / Residents supported by Resident Medical Officers. Surgeon, Physician and the Obstetrician shall be available on call duty.
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An In-Patient Department to admit patients.
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Operation Theatre to meet the surgical cases and Emergencies. Hospitals may charge a reasonable fees if they so desire for the servise provided to the Patients in order to maintain quality of services.
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Minor Operation Theatre to provide minor services.
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Labour Room
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Central Store for linen
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Seperate store rooms for consumable and non-consumable items.
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Medicine Store
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Dispensing room with the facility for the patient to wait for collection of medicines.
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Mortuary with facility to preserve the Dead body.
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Residential accommodation for Prinicipal / Medical Superitendent, Resident Medical officers, nursing staff, auxiliary staffs, House staff, Surgeon, Obstetrician and Physician are not provided Residential accommodation in the premises, they shall be available round the clock for call duty and shall be provided with adequate communication facility.
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Central Medical Record Section with facility for a data bank.
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Staff Committee Room
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The hospital shall arrange consultation of honorary physicians, Guest Physicians or other experts in the medical and allied field and for achieving the objectives.
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In the hospital there shall be not less than 2 lecture theatres that can accommodate the number of students permitted for admission to facilitate teaching and training by demonstration of cases.
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In the hospital there shall be not less than 2 lecture theatres that can accommodate the number of students permitted for admission to facilitate teaching and training by demonstration of cases.
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| CLINICAL DEPARTMENTS IN THE HOSPITAL |
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Medicine ward: |
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General Medicine |
50% (Acute 10% and Chronic 40%)
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Pediatrics |
10%
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Surgery ward: |
20% |
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Obstetrics & Gynaecology ward: |
20% |
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The following accommodation shall be available: - |
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Nurses duty room with intercom facility; |
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Laboratory for pathological examinations; |
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Examination and treatment room; |
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Ward Pantry; |
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Storeroom for Linen and equipment; |
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Office of Head of Department and Heads of Units, and the other unit staff.(Optional) |
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Clinical demonstration room (At least for each clinical department); |
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Research Laboratories : Each Post-Graduate level college shall develop laboratories specialised work in the field. |
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Operation Theatre Unit; |
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Complete Operation Theatre; |
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Waiting room for patients; |
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Preparation room; |
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Postoperative recovery room; |
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Boiled linen room; |
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Instrument room; |
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Sterilization room; |
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Nurses room; |
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Surgeon's room; |
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Assistant's room; |
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Observation gallery for students with close circuit T.V. facility; |
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Waiting room for surgeons and Assistants; |
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Student's washing up and dressing room. |
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Central Sterilization Services: |
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Accommodation for Central Sterilization services and necessary equipment, machinery be provided. |
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Department of Radiology: |
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Accommodation in Radiology department for office and the X-ray unit comprising the plant and anterooms, for stores, dark room for developing , waiting room for patients be provided. Ultrasound Machine / facility, where necessary, shall also be provided. |
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Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation: |
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Accommodation and staff be provided for Rehabilitation therapies (including Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy), Electrotherapy, Diathermy, Ultraviolet and Infra red treatment, Hydrotherapy, seperately as far as possible. |
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Yoga and Naturopathy practice facility shall be provided in each Homoeopathic College. This facility be made available, in adequate area, seperately earmarked for this purpose. |
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Accommodation-waiting rooms for patients and attendants |
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Examination rooms (cubicles) and case demonstration room to be provided for all departments in the outdoors in self-contained blocks with their sub-sections. |
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Dispensing outlets for male and female patients; |
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Outpatients clinical laboratory, where the hospital is in a different premises. |
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Following additional accommodation shall be provided in the departments specified below:- |
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In Surgery and for its specialists - |
Dressing room for men and women patients resp. |
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Minor OT for outpatients |
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Audiometry room. |
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Child Welfare clinic Child Guidance clinic. |
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For Obstetrics & Gynaecology - |
Antenatal clinic Family Welfare clinics. |
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Dental |
Accommodation for Dental Surgery and Prosthetic Dentistry |
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Skin and Sexually Transmitted Diseases |
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Psychiatry |
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Reproductive and Child Health centre with sex education |
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Specialised Clinics |
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Central Casualty Department with accommodation for Resuscitation services. Emergency, X-ray, Operation Theatre. It sgall be fully equipped. The students shall be adequately trained on the life supportive system, body fluid balance, resuscitation services and emergency handling. |
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An observation ward with beds is also necessary. |
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Adequate sanitary arrangements for patients, their attendants and the staff of the department shall be provided in the respective blocks. |
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Provided the provision for unitary campus shall not affect the existing colleges. However upon change of any course or increase in admission capacity or addition of any new course this requirement specified in this regulation shall be applicable in such colleges. The existing colleges if they do not have adequate space to provide such facilities in one block, may provide the same not too far from the existing campus provided adequate communication facilty is made available to the clinical staffs and transport facility provided by the College free of cost to the students. |
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The Homoeopathic Teaching Hospital shall have well furnished seperate dispensaries for its outdoor and indoor departments containing sufficient stock of drugs. A First-aid kit also be kept in outdoor and indoor Departments / Dispensaries. Such a hospital shall have X-ray, E.C.G., Screening and Sonography units, well equipped clinical laboratories and also the rehabilitation unit (consisting of Physio-therapy, occupational therapy, social counseling). |
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