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BACKGROUND
In recent years, there has been a growing
demand from people of India for legal recognition of “Right to Health Care”
and other health rights.
Jan Swasthya Abhiyan
(JSA), the Indian chapter of global People’s Health Movement (PHM) has been
leading this demand. Five years back, in 2004, in collaboration with the
National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) of India, JSA had organized several
public hearings across the country on right to health care. The findings of
these public hearings culminated
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BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO THE BILL
The
proposed draft National Health Bill is a ‘framework law’ laying down an
overarching legal framework on health at the national level. This is the
first step towards legally recognizing ‘right to health’ while locating it
within a complex, cross-sectoral milieu of socio-economic rights requiring
multi-sectoral, multi-level, multi-actors, multi-pronged legislative
interventions of dedicated nature. It is a starting point for developing and
facilitating a coherent and uniform legal response to issues of health, as
against the existing fragmented and partial one.
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THE PROGRESS SO FAR
In
January 2008 Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, as the nodal ministry,
formally initiated drafting of the National Health Bill, with the assistance
of practising lawyers with expertise in the area of health rights and
people’s rights, The first draft was prepared in active consultation with
Ministry’s technical and administrative wings.
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