Private labs to be registered countrywide
by Carol Aloysius
All
private laboratories will soon have to be registered with the Health
Ministry prior to being permitted to operate. “At present there are
several unregistered private laboratories over which the Health Ministry
has no control. No one knows their exact figures because they are
operating without a licence.
Registration of these laboratories will be included in the wide
ranging reforms in the proposed amendments to the Private Medical
Institutions Act now under consideration,” media Health spokesman W.A.D.
Wanninayake told the Sunday Observer.
Commenting on the proposed amendments to the existing Act, he said
that the main aim of the Health Ministry was to improve the quality of
service offered by these private health facilities. There are around 300
private medical institutions in the country. |