The Clinical Establishments Act (Registration and Regulation) Act, 2010 is applicable to all kinds of clinical establishments from both the public and the private sectors, of all recognized systems of medicine, including Allopathy, Ayurveda, Yoga, Naturopathy, Homoeopathy, Siddha, Unani and Sowa Rigpa. This includes all establishments owned, controlled or managed by the Government, a trust (public or private), a corporation registered under a Central, Provincial or State Act (whether or not owned by the Government), a local authority and a single doctor.

A Clinical establishment is defined under the Clinical Establishments Act as: “2. c (i) A hospital, maternity home, nursing home, dispensary, clinic, sanatorium or an institution by whatever name called that offers services, facilities requiring diagnosis, treatment or care for illness, injury, deformity, abnormality or pregnancy in any recognized system of medicine established and administered or maintained by any person or body of persons, whether incorporated or not;”