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ACT XII OF 2019 ACT XII OF 2019 BALOCHISTAN HEALTHCARE COMMISSION ACT, 2019 An Act to improve quality of healthcare services and ban quackery in all its forms and manifestations in Balochistan [Gazette of Balochistan Extraordinary, 16th December, 2019] No. PAB / Legis; V(10) / 2019, dated 16.12.2019.---The Balochistan Health Care Commission Bill 2019 Bill No. 10 of 2019 having been passed by the Provincial Assembly of Balochistan on 18th November, 2019 and assented to by the Governor Balochistan, on 10th December, 2019 is hereby published as an Act of the Balochitsan Provincial Assembly. Preamble.---WHEREAS, it is expedient to make provisions for the improvement of quality of healthcare services, clinical governance and to ban medical or health quackery in all its forms and manifestations and to provide for establishment of the Balochistan Healthcare Commission and the matters connected or ancillary thereto; It is hereby enacted as follows:- 47. Regulations.---(1) The Commission may, by notification in the official Gazette, make regulations for carrying out the purposes of this Act. (2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the forgoing powers, the Commission may make regulations with respect to all or any of the following matters:- (a) the forms, fees and registers for the purposes of this Act; (b) the records of patients treated in a healthcare establishment are provided; (c) the records of the staff of a healthcare establishment; (d) the requirements as to the number and qualifications of nursing and other staff in a healthcare establishment; (e) the apparatus, appliances, equipment and instruments to be provided and maintained in a healthcare establishment; (f) the ambulances to be provided and maintained by a healthcare establishment; (g) the standards of accommodation, sanitation, and other amenities in a healthcare establishment; (h) fix penalties according to offence; (i) the cleanliness and hygiene in a healthcare establishment; (j) the safety and welfare of patients in a healthcare establishment are provided; (k) the management, control, superintendence and care of a healthcare establishment; (l) the composition, procedures, duties and responsibilities of quality assurance committees of healthcare establishments; (m) the rights, functions and responsibilities regards access, safety and protection, respect and dignity, information, participation, privacy and feedback and comment of health care recipients, providers, interactions/ processes and establishments; (n) the medical quackery, and anti-medical quackery strategy; (o) guidelines and do and not do for inquiry team, inspection team(s), investigation team, redressal committee; and (p) the regulation and control of prices of the healthcare services. (3) The power to make regulations conferred by this section shall be subject to the condition of previous publication and, before making any regulations, the draft thereof shall be published, in the official Gazette, two newspapers of wide circulation and on the website of the Commission, for eliciting public opinion thereon within a period of not less than fifteen days from the date of publication.