Redifining the role of medical personnel in right to health as human rights

Kaustav Choudhoury and Prof (Dr) Chintamani Raut
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1599-1602

The concept of Right to Health as Human Right and incidents of violence against medical personnel is contradictory to each other. The Right to Health as Human Rights has been narrowed in perspective to understand it from a particular dimension that everyone is entitled to basic health care services and the state has to provide for it. But the most important dimension that the medical personnel who are concretising these through the mechanism of state to the ultimate beneficiary are not taken due care of. Such violence within hospital makes vulnerable all the medical staff and even the World Health Origination has taken the cognizance of this grave situation and drawn out a global action plan to prevent this violence. The research methodology adopted in this paper is purely doctrinal in approach based only on secondary sources .Since there is no standard operating procedure (SOP) these leads to gross Human Rights violation meted out to the medical professionals. One of the important steps in prevention of this violence is to enactment of stringent legislation. Central government as well as many State Governments including State of Rajasthan and Maharashtra have enacted stringent laws against those indulging in violence against Health Care Workers. The need is to implement these Laws both effectively and efficiently to uphold Right to Health as Human Right and that no violence is done towards medical professional.

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