Gujarat is now looking for upgradation of healthcare sector in the state to provide better social life. For the purpose, the state plans to introduce Public Health Act to streamline the health sector and address the entire gamut the health related issue.

There would be a system to enforce the quality of health service and provide quality life to people. which will essentially focus on monitoring all healthcare institutions in the State. Right from directives to healthcare institutions to treat medico-legal cases, to streamlining the growth of Clinical Research Organizations (CRO) to bringing non-communicable diseases under its purview, the act promises to reform the health sector.

Under the proposed Act, no healthcare provider or establishment shall delay treatment merely on the grounds of receiving police clearance or a police report. It also proposes to provide relief to the people by saying that the healthcare provider shall not refuse a person emergency medical treatment, until the person stabilizes, irrespective of his paying capacity, announced Gujarat Health Minister Shri Jay Narayan Vyas.

The proposed law says that a healthcare establishment shall not provide a health service for experimental or bio-medical or clinical research purpose, except according to guidelines laid down by the Indian Medical Council for Medical Research. The proposed law provides that every bio-medical and clinical research studies shall be carried out only after prior registration with designated authority.

Gujarat has 14 universities and more than half a dozen research institutes imparting post graduate and undergraduate courses in biotechnology and related allied sciences. About 20 institutes offer UG courses, 5 offer PG courses, 6 offer doctoral courses and 7 offer diploma courses. The state produces around 5000 manpower trained in biotechnology, which includes PhD.s, Post

Graduates, PG Diploma, undergraduates and other diploma courses, in various biotechnology related disciplines.