Section 4: Functions of the Board

1 It shall be the duty of the Board-
a to equip, maintain and operate the hospitals which are to provide facilities for diagnosis, curative, promotive and rehabilitative services in orthopaedic treatment;
b to construct, equip, maintain and operate such training schools and similar institutions as the Board considers necessary for providing the hospital at all times with a proper staff of hospital technicians and nurses; and
c
to construct, equip, maintain and operate such clinics, out-patient departments, laboratories, research of experimental stations and other like institutions as the Board considers necessary for the efficient functioning of the hospitals.
2 The duty of operating the hospitals imposed by the foregoing subsection shall include, without prejudice to the extent of that duty apart from this subsection, the duty of providing proper course of instruction for medical students of the affiliate hospitals, and the Board may perform the last mentioned duty by arranging with the approval of the Minister for students of such affiliate hospitals to attend courses at other institutions not controlled by the Board.
3 The Board shall ensure that the standards of teaching provided at all establishments controlled by the Board and the standards of treatment and care provided for patients at those establishments do not fall below those usually provided by similar establishments of internationally high repute.
4 Subject to this Act, the Board shall have power to do anything which, in its opinion, is calculated to facilitate the carrying out of its functions under this Act.