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Home Bare Acts Phrase: patientMental Health Act, 1987 Section 18
Title: Discharge of Voluntary Patients
State: Central
Year: 1987
.....for his continuance as an inpatient, he shall, subject to the provisions of sub-section (3), be discharged on the expiry of the said period. (3) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1) or sub-section (2), where the medical officer in charge of a psychiatric hospital or psychiatric nursing home is satisfied that the discharge of a voluntary patient under sub-section (1) or sub section (2) will not be in the interest of such voluntary patient, he shall, within seventy-two hours of the receipt of a request under sub-section (1), or, if no request under sub section (2) has been made by the voluntary patient before the expiry of the period mentioned in that sub-section, within seventy-two hours of such expiry constitute a Board consisting of two medical officers and seek its opinion as to whether such voluntary patient needs further treatment and if the Board is of the opinion that such voluntary patient needs further treatment in the psychiatric hospital or psychiatric nursing home, the medical officer shall not discharge the voluntary patient, but continue his treatment for a period not exceeding ninety days at a time. .
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionMental Health Act, 1987 Section 13
Title: Inspection of Psychiatric Hospitals and Psychiatric Nursing Homes and Visiting of Patients
State: Central
Year: 1987
.....any psychiatric hospital or psychialric nursing home and require the production of any records, which are required to be kept in accordance with the rules made in this behalf, for inspection: Provided that any personal records of a patient so inspected shall be kept confidential except for the purposes of sub-section (3). (2) The Inspecting Officer may interview in private any patient receiving treatment and care therein-- (a) for the purpose of inquiring into any complaint made by or on behalf of such patient as to the treatment and care, or (b) in any case, where the Inspecting Officer has reason to believe that any inpatient is not receiving proper treatment and care. (3) Where the Inspecting Officer is satisfied that any inpatient in a psychiatric hospital or psychiatric nursing home is not receiving proper treatment and care, he may report the matter to the licensing authority and thereupon the licensing authority may issue such direction as it may deem fit to the medical officer in charge or the licensee of the psychiatric hospital, or, as the case may be, the psychiatric nursing home and every such medical officer in charge or licensee shall be bound to comply.....
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionMental Health Act, 1987 Section 17
Title: Admission Of, and Regulation with Respect To, Voluntary Patients
State: Central
Year: 1987
(1) On receipt of a request under section 15 or section 16, the medical officer in charge shall make such inquiry as he may deem fit within a period not exceeding twenty-four hours and if satisfied that the applicant or, as the case may be, the minor requires treatment as an inpatient in the psychiatric hospital or psychiatric nursing home, he may admit therein such applicant or, as the case may be, minor as a voluntary patient. (2) Every voluntary patient admitted to a psychiatric hospital or psychiatric nursing home shall be bound to abide by such regulations as may be made by the medical officer in charge or the licensee of the psychiatric hospital or psychiatric nursing home.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionCantonments Act, 1924 Section 173
Title: Free Patients
State: Central
Year: 1924
At every hospital or dispensary maintained or aided under section 171, the sick poor of the cantonment, and other inhabitants of the cantonment suffering from infectious or contagious diseases, and, with the sanction of the1[Board], any other sick persons, may receive medical2[or surgical] treatment free of cost, and, if treated as in-patients, shall be either dieted gratuitously or, if the medical officer in charge so directs, shall be granted subsistence allowance on such scale as the1[Board] may fix. 3[***] ________________________ 1. Substituted by Act 24 of 1936, section 69, for "Cantonment Autority". 2. Inserted by Act 24 of 1936, section 43. 3. The Proviso omitted by Act 15 of 1983, section 98 w.e.f. 1-10-1983.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionMental Health Act, 1987 Section 15
Title: Request by Major for Admission as Voluntary Patient
State: Central
Year: 1987
Any person (not being a minor), who considers himself to be a mentally ill person and desires to be admitted to any psychiatric hospital or psychiatric nursing home for treatment, may request the medical officer in-charge for being admitted as a voluntary patient.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionManipur Municipalities Act, 1994 Section 177
Title: Removal to Hospital of Patient Suffering from Infectious Disease
State: Central
Year: 1994
In any municipality when any person suffering from any infectious disease is found to be-- (a) without proper lodging or accommodation, or (b) living in a Serai or other public hostel, or (c) living in a room or house which neither he nor any one, of whom he is a dependent, either own or pays rent for, the Nagar Panchayat or, as the case may be the Council, by any persons authorised by it in this behalf may, on the advice of an Assistant Surgeon, remove the patient to any hospital or place at which persons suffering from such diseases are received for medical treatment and may do anything necessary for such removal.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionNew Delhi Municipal Council Act 1994 Section 283
Title: Removal to Hospital of Patients, Suffering from Dangerous Disease
State: Central
Year: 1994
(1) When any person suffering from any dangerous disease is found to be-- (a) without proper lodging or accomodation; or (b) living in a room or house which he neither owns or pays rent for nor occupies as the guest or relative of any person who owns, or pays rent for it; or (c) living in a sarai, dharamshala, hotel, boarding house, hostel, guest house, lodging house, club; or (d) lodged in premises occupied by members of two or more families; the Chairperson or any person authorised by him in this behalf, may on the advice of any medical officer of the rank not inferior to that of a general duty medical officer remove the patient to any hospital or place at which persons suffering from such diseases are received for medical treatment and may do any thing necessary for such removal. (2) The Council shall if required by the Central Government erect an infectious disease hospital of such type and dimension as that Government may direct.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionCantonments Act, 2006 Section 160
Title: Power to Require Name of Patients or Customers of a Medicals Practitioner or Paramedical Workers
State: Central
Year: 2006
Where it is certified to the Chief Executive Officer by the Health Officer or a doctor in the employment of the Board that there is apprehension of the outbreak or spreading of any infectious or contagious or communicable disease in the cantonment because of use of contaminated needles, syringes or any other such-equipment by a medical practitioner or by any paramedical worker, the Chief Executive Officer may, by notice in writing, require the medical practitioner or the paramedical worker, within such time as may be specified in the notice, to furnish him with a full and complete list of the names and addresses of all his customers or patients within the cantonment, or to give him such information as will enable him to trace the persons whom the medical practitioner or the paramedical worker has attended to or treated in the six weeks preceding the date of issuing the notice.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionCantonments Act, 2006 Section 180
Title: Free Patients
State: Central
Year: 2006
At every hospital or dispensary maintained or aided under section 178, the sick poor of the cantonment, and other inhabitants of the cantonment suffering from infectious, communicable or contagious disease, and, with the sanction of the Board, any other sick persons, may receive medical or surgical treatment free of cost, and, if treated as in-patients, shall be either dieted gratuitously or, if the medical officer in charge so directs, shall be granted subsistence allowance on such scale as the Board may fix.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionKarnataka Municipal Corporations Act, 1976 Section 405
Title: Powers to Order Removal of Patients to Hospitals
State: Karnataka
Year: 1976
.....in-charge, health-officer or assistant health-officer, as the case may be, considers that such person should be, removed to a hospital or other place at which patients suffering from such disease are received for medical treatment, he may remove such person or cause him to be removed to the said hospital or place: Provided that, if any such person is a female she shall not be removed to any such hospital or place unless the same has accommodation of a suitable kind set apart from the portions assigned to males. (2) Whoever obstructs the removal of a person under this section shall be deemed to have committed an offence punishable under section 269, of the Indian Penal Code, 1860.
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