Right to Health
Right to Health include the right to control one’s health and body (for example, sexual and reproductive rights) and to be free from interference (for example, free from torture and non-consensual medical treatment and experimentation).
- Also, it includes the right to a system of health protection that gives everyone an equal opportunity to enjoy the highest attainable level of health.
Constitutional Provisions
- The right to health is inherent to a life with dignity (article 21).
- Article 47 of DPSP provides for the duty of the state to improve public health
Judicial Pronouncements
- Paschim Bangal Khet Mazdoor Samity case (1996): The Supreme Court ....
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