CATEGORIES OF KARNATAKA PRIVATE

MEDICAL ESTABLISHMENTS
1. Clinic/Polyclinic Only Consultation
• A clinic/polyclinic may be defined as a Clinical establishment
providing examination, consultation, prescription to outpatients
including dispensing of medicines by a single / general
practitioner/ specialist doctor /super-specialist doctor.

• A few minor procedures like dressing and administering injections

etc may be provided in the clinic/polyclinic however not requiring
observation/short stay.
2. Clinic/Polyclinic with Diagnostic Support Services

• A clinic with support services may be defined as a healthcare

facility providing examination, consultation, prescription to
outpatients by a single / general practitioner/ specialist doctor
/super-specialist doctor. In addition also have the support
services like pharmacy, injections, family planning facility,
dressing room, sample collection facility, basic laboratory, X- ray,
USG with or without color Doppler, ECG or any other.
3. Clinic/ Polyclinic with Observation
• A clinic with observation/short stay may be defined as a
healthcare facility providing examination, consultation,
prescription to outpatients by a single / general practitioner/
specialist doctor /super-specialist doctor and carrying out few
minor procedures like dressing and administering injections with
observation/short stay facility.
• Observation/ short stay facility would be available atleast upto 8
hours.
4. Clinic/ Polyclinic with Dispensary
• A clinic may be defined as a clinical establishment providing
examination, consultation, prescription to outpatients including
dispensing of medicines by a single / general practitioner/
specialist doctor /super-specialist doctor.
• A few minor procedures like dressing and administering injections
etc may be provided in the clinic/polyclinic however not requiring
observation/short stay.
• Dispensing of medicines shall be done by qualified professionals to
out patients.
5. Hospital Level 1 (A)
• General Medical services with indoor admission facility provided by
recognized allopathic medical graduate(s) and may also include general
dentistry services provided by recognized BDS graduates.

6. Hospital Level 1(B)

• This level of hospital shall include all the general medical services provided
at level 1(A) above and specialist medical services provided by Doctors from
one or more basic specialties namely General Medicine, General Surgery,
Paediatrics, Obstetrics &Gynaecology and Dentistry, providing indoor and
OPD services.
• Level 1(A) and Level 1(B) Hospitals shall also include support systems
required for the respective services like Pharmacy, Laboratory, etc.
7. Hospital Level 2
This level may include all the services provided at level 1(A) and 1(B) and services
through other medical specialties given as under, in addition to basic medical
specialty given under 1 (B) like:-
• Orthopaedics
• ENT
• Ophthalmology
• Dental
• Emergency with or without ICU
• Anaesthesia
• Psychiatry
• Skin Pulmonary Medicine
• Rehabilitation, etc.
And support systems required for the above services like Pharmacy, Laboratory,
Imaging facilities, Operation Theatre etc.
Clinical Services:
General Medicine, General Surgery , Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Paediatrics
including new born care, Orthopaedics , Anaesthesiology , Emergency
Medicine & Trauma, Critical Care Medicine (e.g. HDU, ICU), ENT,
Ophthalmology, Psychiatry , Dermatology, Community Health , Palliative
Medicine, Geriatric Care, Family Medicine, Dentistry including sub
specialities, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Transfusion Medicine/Blood
Storage Centre/Blood Bank, Other emerging sub-specialities in any of the
above fields.
8. Hospital Level 3 (Non-Teaching) Super-specialty services
This level may include all the services provided at level 1(A), 1(B) and 2 and services
of one or more of the super specialty with distinct departments and/or also
Dentistry if available.
It will have other support systems required for services like pharmacy, Laboratory,
and Imaging facility, Operation Theatre etc.
Clinical Services:
General Medicine, General Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Fertility and
Assisted Reproduction, Paediatrics, Paediatric Intensive Care, Paediatric surgery ,
Neonatology, Orthopaedics, Orthopaedics with Joint Replacement,
Anaesthesiology, Emergency Medicine & Trauma, Critical Care Medicine (e.g. HDU,
ICU) , ENT , Ophthalmology, Neurology , Neurosurgery, Cardiology, Cardiothoracic
surgery, Urology, Nephrology & Dialysis, Gastroenterology, GI Surgery (Surgical
Gastroenterology), Minimally Invasive Surgery or Minimal Access Surgery,
Respiratory Medicine, Endocrinology, Rheumatology, Clinical Immunology,
Psychiatry & Mental Health , Medical Oncology, Surgical Oncology, Radiation
Oncology, Nuclear Medicine, Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Dermatology,
Community Health, Palliative Medicine , Geriatric Care , Family Medicine,
Clinical Haematology ,Organ transplantation , Genetics, Dentistry including
sub specialities , Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Transfusion
Medicine/Blood Storage Centre/Blood Bank, Other emerging sub-specialities
in any of the above fields, or emerging independent specialities
9. Hospital Level 4 (Teaching)
This level will include all the services provided at level 2 and may also have
Level 3 facilities. It will however have the distinction of being teaching /
training institution and it may or may not have super specialties. Tertiary
healthcare services at this level can be provided through specialists and may
be super specialists (if available). It will have other support systems required
for these services. It shall also include the requirement of MCI/other
registering body for teaching hospitals and will be governed by their rules.
However registration of teaching Hospitals will also be required under Clinical
Establishment Act for purpose other than those covered under MCI such as,
records maintenance and reporting of information and statistics, and
compliance to range of rates for Medical and Surgical procedures, etc.
10. Speciality/Super speciality specific Hospital
Hospitals having facilities, medical staff and all necessary personnel to provide
diagnosis, tertiary care and treatment of a limited specialized group of acute
or chronic conditions such as psychiatric problems, certain disease categories
such as cardiac, oncology, or orthopedic problems, and so forth.

11. Medical Diagnostic Laboratory

It means a laboratory with one or more of the following where
microbiological, serological, chemical, hematological, immune-hematological,
immunological, toxicological, cytogenetic, exfoliative cytogenetic, histological,
pathological or other examinations are performed of materials/fluids derived
from the human body for the purpose of providing information on diagnosis,
prognosis, prevention, or treatment of disease.
12. Dental lab or clinic
These are places where dentists provide dental care with no inpatient facilities.
13. Integrated Counseling Centre
• An integrated counselling and testing centre is a place where a person is
counselled and tested and checked for HIV, Tuberculosis, ANC and postnatal
follow up on his own free will or as advised by a medical provider.
• An centre shall be located in health facilities owned by the government, in
the private/not for-profit sector, in public sector organizations/other
government departments such as the Railways, Employees' State Insurance
Department (ESID), etc. and in sectors where nongovernmental organizations
(NGOs) have a presence.
• In the health facility, the centre shall be well coordinated with the Department
of Medicine, Microbiology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pediatrics, Psychiatry,
Dermatology, Preventive and Social Medicine, etc.
14. Blood Bank
Blood Centres and Transfusion Services should accept blood from only
voluntary non-remunerated safe blood donors and do away with the high-risk
donors and professional blood donors.
15. Health Checkup centre
16. Diagnostic Imaging centre
stand alone organized facilities to provide simple to critical diagnostic
procedures such as radiological investigation supervised by a radiologist and
clinical laboratory services by laboratory specialist usually performed through
referrals from physicians and other health care facilities.
17. Ayush Therapy centre
• Ayurveda Ausadh Chikitsa, Shalya Chikitsa, Shodhan Chikitsa, Rasayana,
Pathya Vyavastha
• Yoga Ashtang Yoga
• Unani Matab, Jarahat, Ilaj-bit-Tadbeer, Hifzan-e-Sehat
• Siddha Maruthuvam, Sirappu Maruthuvam, Varmam Thokknam & Yoga
• Homeopathy General Homeopathy
• Naturopathy External Therapies with natural modalities Internal Therapies
18. Allied Health professions
Allied health professions generally indicate that they are health professions distinct
from medicine, dentistry, pharmacy and nursing.
The list of allied health professions includes but is not limited to the following
disciplines:
• Audiology
• Behavioral health (counseling, marriage and family therapy etc.)
• Exercise physiology
• Nuclear medicine technology
• Medical Laboratory Scientist
• Dietetics
• Occupational therapy
• Optometry
• Orthoptics
• Orthotics and prosthetics
• Osteopathy
• Paramedic
• Podiatry
• Health Psychology/Clinical Psychology
• Physiotherapy
• Radiation therapy
• Radiography / Medical imaging
• Respiratory Therapy
• Sonography
• Speech pathology