Right to health

⛑️WHAT IS THE RIGHT TO HEALTH?👩‍⚕️

🌳🌾🌼Rural communities in India suffer from a significant lack of access to healthcare🏥.🛌 This lack of access results in high rates of maternal mortality🤰, infant mortality👶, and malnutrition🚶, as well as low life expectancy and low vaccination rates.

👉The WHO Constitution (1946) envisages “the highest attainable standard of health as a fundamental right of every human being .”

👉Fundamental Rights: Article 21 of the Indian Constitution guarantees a fundamental right to life & personal liberty. The right to health is inherent to a life with dignity.

👉DPSP: Articles 38, 39, 42, 43, & 47 put the obligation on the state in order to ensure the effective realization of the right to health.

🚩landmark judgment in Parmanand Katara Vs Union of India (1989), 👩‍⚖️Supreme Court had ruled that every doctor whether at a government hospital or otherwise has the professional obligation to extend his services with due expertise for protecting life.

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🔴The Challenges and innovative solutions to rural health dilemma 🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹

🔶according to the data of National Rural Health Mission .It is observed that 70% of population has no access to specialist care as 80% of specialists live in urban areas. 

🔶Only 13% of rural population have access to primary health centers, 33% to sub-center and 9.6% to a hospital (NFHS-II).

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