The law amending the Law Relating to Private Health Care Services has added a provision to Section 31 that states that anyone convicted of operating a private outpatient surgery business without a license will be sentenced to a minimum of 1 year in prison and a maximum of 5 years in prison, as well as a fine.
The law was enacted by the National Defence and Security Council on February 17. Section 31 of the original law stipulated that anyone convicted of operating a private hospital business without a license would be sentenced to a minimum of 1 year in prison and a maximum of 5 years in prison, and a fine. The amended law now stipulates that anyone convicted of operating a private hospital business, private medical training school business, or private outpatient surgery business without a license would be sentenced to a minimum of 1 year in prison and a maximum of 5 years in prison, and a fine.
The amended law has inserted and enacted the Subsection (p): Private Medical Support Training School Business and Subsection (q): Private outpatient surgical business, after Section 2 (o). The amended law states that the word “Government” in the Private Health Care Services Law shall be replaced with the word “Union Government”, the word “Department of Health” with the word “Department of Medical Services”, the word “prior permission” with the word “prior approval”, and the word “State, Region” with the word “Nay Pyi Taw, Region or State”.
In addition, Section 33 of the Law Relating to Private Health Care Services has been amended to read: “Any person who, if convicted of operating a private health service other than a private hospital, private medical training school, private outpatient surgery, private maternity ward, or private clinic without a license, shall be sentenced to a minimum of 3 months in prison and a maximum of 1 year in prison, and may also be fined.”
