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After section 5 of the principal Act, the following sections shall be inserted, namely :— “5-A. Maintenance of facilities and services by clinical establishments.— (1) Every clinical establishment shall maintain minimum standards of facilities and services, as may be prescribed. TAMIL NADU GOVERNMENT GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY 81 (2) The Government shall prescribe minimum standards of facilities and services in respect of different categories of clinical establishments under all recognized systems of medicines. 5-B. Duties and responsibilities of clinical establishments.— Every clinical establishment shall perform the following duties and responsibilities, namely :— (a) administer fi rst aid and take other life saving or stabilizing emergency measures in all medico-legal or potentially medico-legal cases such as road accidents, accidental or induced burns or poisoning or criminal assaults and the like when the victims present themselves at the clinical establishment; (b) participate in the implementation of all National and State health programmes in such manner as the Government may specify, from time to time, and furnish periodical reports thereon to the authorities specifi ed therein; (c) maintain medical records in such form and in such manner as may be prescribed for the respective system of medicine; (d) carry out necessary action to prevent the spread of communicable diseases and to control non-communicable diseases, as the Government may direct, from time to time; and (e) such other duties and responsibilities, as may be prescribed. 5-C. Annual publication of lists of clinical establishments.— The competent authority shall maintain, in such form as may be prescribed, a register of clinical establishments and shall, during the month of January in each year, publish in the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette, a list of clinical establishments registered together with such details pertaining to them as may be prescribed.”.