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Rajasthan’s groundbreaking new law compels all healthcare facilities to provide emergency care without receiving up-front payment but doctors fear it will ultimately leave them picking up the bill.
The Government of Rajasthan has passed the Rajasthan Right to Health Care Act 2022 [1] in the Assembly, making it the first state to do so in India. The bill gives every resident of the state the right to avail free Out Patient Department (OPD) services and In Patient Department (IPD) services at all public health facilities.
The Human Rights Measurement Initiative [2] finds that India is fulfilling 80.5% of what it should be fulfilling for the right to health based on its level of income. [3] When looking at the right to health with respect to children, India achieves 92.1% of what is expected based on its current income. [3]
The "right to life" guaranteed under Article 21 [i] has been expanded to include a number of human rights, including: [2] the right to a speedy trial; [126] the right to water; [127] the right to earn a livelihood, the right to health, and; the right to education. [128]
While most human rights are theoretically framed as negative rights, meaning that they are areas upon which society cannot interfere or restrict by political action, Mervyn Susser contends that the right to health is a particularly unique and challenging right because it is often expressed as a positive right, where society bears an obligation ...
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State of Emergency in India. Extensive rights violations take place. 1978: SC rules in Menaka Gandhi v. Union of India that the right to life under Article 21 of the Constitution cannot be suspended even in an emergency. 1978: Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act, 1978 [8] [9] 1984: Operation Blue Star and the subsequent 1984 Anti-Sikh riots: 1984
The National Health Policy was endorsed by the Parliament of India in 1983 and updated in 2002, and then again updated in 2017. The recent four main updates in 2017 mention the need to focus on the growing burden of non-communicable diseases, the emergence of the robust healthcare industry, growing incidences of unsustainable expenditure due to healthcare costs, and rising economic growth ...