Various clinical and para-clinical disciplines will be framed and named as per accepted nomenclatures approved by MCI or established practices in the medical fraternity. The consultants or other specialist appointments in various disciplines will be filled by specialists possessing MCI approved qualifications for respective disciplines, however exceptions will be made for competent faculty (rained and having work experience in U.K, U.S.A, etc. The speciality departments thus formed and established will be under over all charge of the designated HOD of respective disciplines and the main faculty resource will be from speciality qualified specialists. The hospital patients will be directed to respective disciplines based on system or organ mobility status. Encouragement would be made for the clinical specialists to refer patients, to the higher speciality clinics based on the principle of specialization. However the current practice broad or basic speciality specialists with particular organ/system biased experience undertaking management of such patients under their own care will be respected, subject to periodical patient care evaluation to ensure that by such practice the quality of patient care is not being compromised, nor is the patient being deprived of the expertise and benefits of care under exclusive specialist of the respective discipline. Thus, in spite of higher speciality clinic with all their staff, equipment and infrastructure under over all control of concerned speciality will be also made available to the broad speciality specialists making use of such speciality facilities subject to their being found trained and competent to handle those specialty equipments and this would be under overall co-ordination of parent speciality.

Policy 21 :-Professional Fees

As stated earlier in section pertaining to terms and conditions of medical staff no professional fee other than the registration fee will be charged to the patients except in the pay clinic as explained in the earlier paragraphs. 

Policy 22 :-Diagnostic / Special Examination/Procedure Fees

Registration fee paid by the patients is limited to their consultation in respective out patient clinic and does not authorize them for special diagnostic/examination/procedure service. Patients will have lo pay as per the approved rates for such diagnostic/examination/procedure. No sharing of such charges will be done with the faculty members.

Policy-23:- Exemption From Diagnostic / Special Examination / Procedure Fees

Any exemption /concession on such fee will be done by the Medical Director or any other staff authorized by him for this purpose. However the consultants have the privilege to recommend deserving cases based on economic status / exigency of patient condition/ and or interest of clinical teaching / research work. The recommendations will not be mandatory but due weightage will  be given for the same. The yardstick and parameter for exemption will be as per given in a separate section of the  document and as approved by the governing body .