A Bill pending for over a decade — that aims to deal with emergency health situations and control, and management of diseases likely to cause major epidemics — may now see light of the day. Now christened as ‘The Public Health (Prevention, Control, and Management of Epidemics, Bio-terrorism and Disasters) Bill 2017’, the draft has undergone ‘minor changes over the years’ according to sources, and will soon be submitted to the law ministry for approval. The National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) and Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) have jointly prepared the Bill.

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