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Q1Consider the following statements: 1. The Clinical Establishments Act provides for registration and regulation of clinical establishments. 2. The Act links minimum standards of facilities and services with the constitutional mandate of Article 47. 3. The Act applied in the first instance to all States of India without any adoption mechanism. 4. The State Council for clinical establishments has the Secretary, Health as ex officio Chairman. Which of the statements given above are correct?
Statements 1, 2 and 4 are correct. Statement 3 is incorrect: the Act initially applied to specified States and Union territories, and to other States adopting it under Article 252.
Q2Consider the following statements: 1. The National Exit Test under the National Medical Commission Act is a common final-year undergraduate medical examination for granting licence to practise medicine and enrolment in the State or National Register. 2. A person with a foreign medical qualification must qualify the National Exit Test to obtain licence to practise medicine and for enrolment in the State or National Register. 3. The National Register maintained under the National Medical Commission Act is expressly excluded from the category of public documents. 4. The Act prohibits electronic synchronisation between the National Register and State Registers. Which of the statements given above are correct?
Statements 1 and 2 are correct: the Act makes the National Exit Test relevant to licence and register enrolment, including for foreign medical qualifications. Statement 3 is incorrect because the National Register is a public document under section 74 of the Indian Evidence Act. Statement 4 is incorrect because the Ethics and Medical Registration Board must ensure electronic synchronisation between the National Register and State Register.
Q3Consider the following statements: 1. Under the Epidemic Diseases Act, the State Government may prescribe temporary regulations to prevent the outbreak or spread of a dangerous epidemic disease. 2. Section 2 of the Epidemic Diseases Act gives this power only to Parliament, not to the State Government. 3. The Act permits inspection of persons travelling by railway or otherwise and segregation of suspected infected persons. Which of the statements given above are correct?
Statement 1 is correct: Section 2 empowers the State Government to prescribe temporary regulations. Statement 2 is false because the cited power is with the State Government. Statement 3 is correct: inspection of travellers and segregation of suspected infected persons are expressly mentioned.
Q4Consider the following statements: 1. NHM's financing components include the NRHM-RCH Flexipool. 2. NHM's financing components include the NUHM Flexipool. 3. Infrastructure Maintenance is excluded from NHM financing components. Which of the statements given above are correct?
Statements 1 and 2 are correct. The official NHM page lists both flexipools. Statement 3 is incorrect because Infrastructure Maintenance is also listed as a financing component.
Q5Consider the following statements: 1. Public health and sanitation; hospitals and dispensaries are placed in the State List. 2. Port quarantine, including hospitals connected with it, is placed in the Union List. 3. Prevention of the extension of infectious or contagious diseases from one State to another is placed in the State List. 4. Drugs and poisons are placed in the Concurrent List, subject to the Union List entry on opium. Which of the statements given above are correct?
Statement 1 is correct: Entry 6 of the State List covers public health, sanitation, hospitals and dispensaries. Statement 2 is correct: Entry 28 of the Union List covers port quarantine and connected hospitals. Statement 3 is incorrect: inter-State spread of infectious or contagious diseases is in the Concurrent List, not the State List. Statement 4 is correct: drugs and poisons are listed in the Concurrent List, subject to the Union List entry on opium.
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6Consider the following statements: 1. VHSNC is one of the key elements of the National Rural Health Mission. 2. VHSNC is formed at the revenue village level and should act as a sub-committee of the Gram Panchayat. 3. ASHA residing in the village is the member secretary and convener of the VHSNC. 4. VHSNC is constituted only at the district level and has no role in local health planning. Which of the statements given above are correct?
7Consider the following statements: 1. The National Health Mission encompasses the National Rural Health Mission and the National Urban Health Mission. 2. Its programme components include health system strengthening, RMNCH+A and communicable and non-communicable diseases. 3. The National Health Mission is designed only for urban health care delivery. 4. Within broad national parameters, States have flexibility to plan and implement State-specific action plans. Which of the statements given above are correct?
8Consider the following statements: 1. Under the Epidemic Diseases Act, when a State Government is satisfied that a dangerous epidemic disease threatens the State or part of it, it may take special measures. 2. The State Government may prescribe temporary regulations by public notice to prevent the outbreak or spread of such disease. 3. The Act gives this regulation-making power only to the Central Government, not to State Governments. 4. The Act includes inspection of persons travelling by railway or otherwise and segregation of suspected infected persons. Which of the statements given above are correct?
9Consider the following statements: 1. NUHM focuses on the health care needs of the urban population, especially the urban poor. 2. NUHM aims to make essential primary health care services available and reduce out-of-pocket expenses for treatment. 3. NUHM is based on avoiding convergence with wider determinants such as drinking water and sanitation. Which of the statements given above are correct?
10Consider the following statements: 1. The Eleventh Schedule includes health and sanitation, including hospitals, primary health centres and dispensaries. 2. The Twelfth Schedule includes public health, sanitation conservancy and solid waste management. 3. The Eleventh Schedule specifically uses the expression sanitation conservancy and solid waste management. 4. The Twelfth Schedule includes vital statistics, including registration of births and deaths. Which of the statements given above are correct?
11Consider the following statements: 1. The Central Government's powers under section 2A of the Epidemic Diseases Act cover inspection of bus, train, goods vehicle, ship, vessel or aircraft in the stated contexts. 2. The Act protects persons from suits or legal proceedings for things done in good faith under the Act. 3. Section 2A is limited to inspection of ships and vessels only. Which of the statements given above are correct?
12Consider the following statements: 1. The Mental Healthcare Act recognises a right to access mental healthcare and treatment from mental health services run or funded by the appropriate Government. 2. The right to access mental healthcare includes services without discrimination on grounds such as gender, caste, class, disability and other listed bases. 3. The appropriate Government must integrate mental health services into general healthcare at all levels, including primary, secondary and tertiary healthcare. 4. The Central Mental Health Authority is chaired ex officio by the Union Home Secretary. Which of the statements given above are correct?
13Consider the following statements: 1. The Clinical Establishments Act, 2010 provides for registration and regulation of clinical establishments in the country. 2. No person shall run a clinical establishment unless it has been duly registered under the Act. 3. Registration conditions include minimum standards of facilities and services. 4. The district registering authority under the Act is chaired by the Union Health Secretary. Which of the statements given above are correct?
14Consider the following statements: 1. The Clinical Establishments Act links registration and regulation of clinical establishments to minimum standards and the Article 47 public-health mandate. 2. The Act applies automatically to all States of India, without any adoption route under Article 252. 3. Clinical establishments owned, controlled or managed by the Armed Forces are outside the definition of clinical establishment under the Act. 4. No person may run a clinical establishment unless it is duly registered under the Act. Which of the statements given above are correct?
15Consider the following statements: 1. NHM allows States flexibility to plan and implement State-specific action plans within broad national parameters and priorities. 2. The State PIP spells out key strategies, activities, budgetary requirements and key health outputs and outcomes. 3. NHM financing has only two components: NRHM and NUHM flexipools. Which of the statements given above are correct?