Primary Health Centre's, Dispensaries, District level Hospitals, Hospitals

Walk along any main road in Navi Mumbai and count the boards: a dispensary, a nursing home, a diagnostic lab, a multi-specialty hospital with a glass front. They all treat patients, but they are not the same kind of place and the law does not treat them alike. A small clinic may need one registration; a hospital that removes organs needs another; a place that terminates pregnancies needs approval of a different kind. So what kinds of health facility exist, and what makes each one legally different?

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Health facilities range from village primary health centres and dispensaries to district hospitals, teaching hospitals, corporate hospitals and small nursing homes, and the more serious the treatment offered, the more specific the registration or approval the law asks for.

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