If domestic private healthcare services do not have business licences, action will be taken against them under the law, according to the Director General of the Department of Medical Services, who is also Secretary of the Central Committee for Private Healthcare Services. He gave a speech at the meeting with heads of Township’s Medical Services Department in Yangon Region on 17 February. “In order to ensure that private healthcare services are not carried out without a licence in the assigned areas, it needs to obtain information on the ground situation through the efforts of basic health workers, to supervise the application for business licences in accordance with the prescribed rules, to take action against in accordance with the law in case of non-compliance, and to ensure that the public have to enjoy quality private healthcare services at a fair cost,” said Dr Myat Wunna Soe, Director General of the Department of Medical Services. The township medical services department heads are the secretaries of the respective township private healthcare services supervisory committees. Hence, they have to accurately manage business license approval, licence renewal, occasional field inspections of businesses, verifying whether or not the services are being operated by designated healthcare providers, and verifying whether or not those are complying with the licensing rules.—TWA/TKO
