PESHAWAR, July 5: The NWFP Health Regulatory Authority (HRA) has asked about 300 clinics and diagnostic outlets to get registered within a month or face closure, an official told Dawn on Tuesday. He said that the authority had started the registration process of the clinics, laboratories and investigation centres in January this year.

On the directives of the HRA, the executive district officers, health, have started a campaign to register clinics and laboratories and has identified 300 such outlets in the province which have not been registered so far.

“All qualified medical practitioners registered with the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council, Homeopathy Council and Tib Council, who are running hospitals and nursing or maternity homes in the private sector, are required to register themselves with the HRA within a month,” said an official of the authority.