India has faced criticism for not having nurtured its’ healthcare industry in the past. With this backdrop, a new law to regulate the “standards of education and services by allied and healthcare professionals” (namely the National Commission for Allied and Healthcare Professions Act, 2021) has been finalised.
The law seeks to regulate a wide range of allied healthcare professionals such as anaesthesia assistants, physiotherapists, dieticians, nutritionists, palliative care professionals, mental health support workers and medical transcriptionists.
Please click here to read the full article by Vikram Raghani published in ET Healthworld.
Vikram is the Co-Chair of the Corporate Practice at JSA. His areas of practice include mergers & acquisitions, private equity and securities laws (including capital markets). He has been involved in private equity and mergers & acquisitions transactions also focusing on public market investments and M&A.