7th CPC Cadre Review of Medical Laboratory
Staff
Condition for payment of 7th CPC HPCA/PCA and Cadre
Review of Medical Laboratory Staff
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY
WELFARE
LOK SABHA
UNSTARRED QUESTION NO: 6554
ANSWERED ON:
06.04.2018
Cadre Review of Medical Laboratory
Staff
ANWHAR RAAJHAA
SUDHEER GUPTA
T.
RADHAKRISHNAN
GAJANAN CHANDRAKANT KIRTIKAR
KUNWAR HARIBANSH SINGH
NARANBHAI KACHHADIA
VIJAY KUMAR S.R.
BIDYUT BARAN MAHATO
Will the Minister of HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE be
pleased to state:-
(a)
whether his Ministry has finalised draft rules
regarding minimum
standards for clinical laboratories, framed under
Clinical
Establishments Act, 2010, if so, the details
thereof;
(b) whether
his Ministry is aware that presently most of the work
of clinical and
research laboratories of even prestigious department
i.e. ICMR and
Central Government Hospitals is performed and
supervised by
professionally qualified and technically competent BSc,
MSc, PhD medical
laboratory professional in lab sciences who are not
MBBS/MD, if so, the
details thereof;
(c) whether the cadre review of medical
laboratory staff approved earlier has not been
implemented in complete
manner so far and most of issues like pay fixation,
DPC, MACP, revision
of recruitment rules, filling of vacant promotional
posts are still
pending, if so, the details thereof and the reasons
therefor;
(d)
whether his Ministry has not issued any order till date
regarding grant
of Patient Care Allowance/Hospital Patient Care
Allowance (PCA/HPCA) to
health employees as per the accepted recommendations of
Seventh Central
Pay Commission and if so, the details thereof and
the reasons therefor;
and
(e) whether his Ministry has also approved the short
term
certificate courses/ programmes which are neither
formal degree nor
diploma in allied health sciences and run under the
aegis of Ministry of
Skill Development and are very contrary to the core
curricula designed
by his Ministry in terms of course content and duration
of courses etc.,
if so, the reaction of the Government thereto?
ANSWER
THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND
FAMILY WELFARE (SMT. ANUPRIYA PATEL)
(a):
Yes. The draft notification to amend the Clinical
Establishments
(Central Government) Rules, 2012 regarding minimum
standards of medical
diagnostic laboratories is available on the website of
Clinical
Establishment Act
<clinicalestablishments.gov.in>.
(b): As
per the information received from ICMR most of the work
of clinical and
research laboratories is performed and supervised by
professionally
qualified and technically competent technical staff and
Scientists
having B.Sc, M.Sc, Ph.D and MBBS, MD qualification.
As far as
Central Government hospitals in Delhi viz. Safdarjung
Hospital and Lady
Hardinge Medical College & Associated Hospitals are
concerned, all
the diagnostic work is performed and supervised by
professionally
qualified and technically competent MBBD/MD
professionals.
(c):
The cadre of the Medical Laboratory Staff of Central
Government
Hospitals in Delhi namely Safdarjung, Dr. RML and Lady
Hardinge Medical
College & Associated Hospitals has already been
restructured and
implemented by giving benefits of 7th Central Pay
Commission.
(d):
The order containing condition for payment of HPCA/PCA
after
implementation of Seventh Central Pay Commission has
not been issued so
far. The matter is under consideration in this Ministry
in consultation
with Ministry of Finance.
(e): This Ministry has developed a
course curricula for short term skill training. The
National Skill
Qualification Framework (NSQF) level of the skill
development curricula
is kept lower than the level of Diploma and Degree in
core allied health
courses developed by this Ministry. A skilled worker
will only reach
the higher levels after acquiring adequate
qualification (either Diploma
or Degree) through an accredited institute/university.
There are no
contradictions in the short term courses as compared to
the core
curricula developed by the Ministry.
Source:
Loksabha
