TOP 5 HEALTH LAWS AND POLICY UPDATES

Dear Reader, We are happy to share the most interesting legal and policy updates concerning health industry that we read today. We hope you enjoy reading it.

๐ƒ๐จ๐œ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐›๐ž ๐ฏ๐ข๐œ๐š๐ซ๐ข๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ฅ๐ข๐š๐›๐ฅ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฉ๐š๐ฒ ๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ž๐ง๐ฌ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ง ๐ข๐Ÿ ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐š๐๐ฏ๐ข๐œ๐ž ๐ฐ๐š๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ ๐›๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ฐ๐š๐ฌ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฐ๐ž๐ ๐›๐ฒ ๐ก๐จ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ข๐ญ๐š๐ฅ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐Ÿ๐Ÿ: ๐๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐š๐ฅ ๐‚๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ž๐ซ ๐‚๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง
India’s apex consumer forum, the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC), has imposed a compensation of Rs. 30 Lakhs on a hospital and its doctors for deficiency in providing post operative care to patient. The NCDRC observed that failure to intubate the patient by hospital staff, including anaesthetist, despite the written advice of reintubation by the surgeon who had performed the surgery on the patient, amounted to medical negligence which left the patient in permanent vegetative state. The commission held that the surgeon was vicariously liable for the negligent actions of the hospital staff, along with the hospital.
Source: bit.ly/3THv6id

๐๐ซ๐ข๐œ๐ค ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ๐š๐ฅ ๐ซ๐ž๐ญ๐š๐ข๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ก๐š๐ซ๐ฆ๐š๐œ๐ข๐ž๐ฌ ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐จ ๐œ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ญ๐ž ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฅ๐ž ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐œ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐š๐ญ ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐œ๐ญ-๐ฅ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ฅ ๐ข๐ง ๐ž๐š๐œ๐ก ๐’๐ญ๐š๐ญ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐›๐ž ๐š๐›๐ฅ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฉ๐š๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐œ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐œ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ฆ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ, ๐š๐ง๐ ๐œ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐ž-๐ฉ๐ก๐š๐ซ๐ฆ๐š๐œ๐ข๐ž๐ฌ: ๐‘๐ž๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ
India’s biggest association of brick and mortal retail pharmacies, The All India Organization of Chemists and Druggists (AIOCD), has reportedly proposed that it will guide its state branches to form a single entity, ‘distribution entity’ at every district or taluka level. AIOCD believes that having a single procurement and distribution entity will result in reduction of operational expenses, multiple licensing and tax payments for the unorganized distributors and chemists. It should also result in ability of retailers to pass more discounts to end consumers to ward-off the threat of e-pharmacies.
Source: bit.ly/43uy3G9

๐„-๐ฐ๐š๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž ๐„๐๐‘ ๐ช๐ฎ๐š๐ซ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐š๐ง๐ง๐ฎ๐š๐ฅ ๐ซ๐ž๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ง ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ž๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ฌ ๐ฆ๐š๐ฒ ๐›๐ž ๐ซ๐ž๐ฅ๐š๐ฑ๐ž๐
Indiaโ€™s Ministry of Environment has notified the E-Waste (Management) Amendment Rules, 2024. The amendment has given the Ministry the power to relax the timelines for the filing of returns and reports by the manufacturer, producer, refurbisher or recycler, up to a period of nine months. As of now, the annual return filing date for manufacturers and producers of electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) is 30th April 2024.
Source: bit.ly/48Z5npS

๐Œ๐š๐ซ๐ค๐ข๐ง๐  ๐Ÿ๐ž๐ž ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ˆ๐ง๐๐ข๐š๐ง ๐’๐ญ๐š๐ง๐๐š๐ซ๐ (๐ˆ๐’) ๐ฆ๐š๐ซ๐ค ๐ซ๐ž๐๐ฎ๐œ๐ž๐ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ซ๐ญ-๐ฎ๐ฉ๐ฌ, ๐ฆ๐ข๐œ๐ซ๐จ, ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง-๐ฅ๐ž๐ ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ๐ž๐ฌ
Indiaโ€™s Department of Consumer Affairs has recently introduced concessions for the annual minimum marking fee for use of Indian Standard (IS) mark. As per the revised Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) (Conformity Assessment) Regulations 2018, micro-scale enterprises and startup enterprises will receive a concession of 80% against the prescribed annual marking fees as applicable to the particular product category, small-scale enterprises will receive a concession of 50%, and women-entrepreneur enterprises will receive an extra concession of 10%. These concessions are available until May 31, 2026.
Source: bit.ly/49MllVu

๐€๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐š ๐๐ซ๐š๐ฐ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ž ๐›๐ž๐ญ๐ฐ๐ž๐ž๐ง ๐š๐๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ญ๐ข๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ก๐ž๐š๐ฅ๐ญ๐ก๐œ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐ฌ๐ž๐ซ๐ฏ๐ข๐œ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ž ๐ก๐ž๐š๐ฅ๐ญ๐ก๐œ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐๐ฎ๐œ๐ญ๐ฌ, ๐š๐ง๐ ๐š๐๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ญ๐ข๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ก๐ž๐š๐ฅ๐ญ๐ก๐œ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐๐ฎ๐œ๐ญ๐ฌ
Australia’s drugs and cosmetics regulator, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), has prohibited direct or indirect references to prescription-only substances including terms such as โ€œanti-wrinkle injections” and “derma fillers” by healthcare service providers such as hospitals. As per TGA, it should be clear in an advertisement for healthcare services that use healthcare products, such as cosmetic injection services, that the customer is being offered a health-practitioner-led consultation and that, depending on the outcome of the consultation, this may or may not lead to the provision of a prescription and injection.
Source: bit.ly/49O6Sbw