Legal Provision

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Health Care Commission Act, 2015. First published after having received the assent of the Governor of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the Gazette of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Extraordinary), dated the 27th January, 2015.

AN ACT to provide for the regulation of health care services on sound physical and technical footings in the public and private sectors and to establish the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Health Care Commission

WHEREAS it is expedient to provide for the regulation of health care services on sound physical and technical footings in public and private sectors, make provisions for the safe and high-quality health care services to the people of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and to set out actions needed to achieve the vision of excellent quality health care services in the Province of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa;

AND WHEREAS to promote and improve patient safety and health care service quality in public and private sectors, it is necessary to provide mechanism for banning quackery in all its forms and manifestations and to establish the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Health Care Commission to regulate health care establishment in public and private sectors and for matters connected therewith and ancillary thereto;

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Health Care Commission Act, 2015, is hereby enacted.