The Bombay High Court has directed the administration in Maharashtra – India’s worst-affected state in terms of the COVID-19 pandemic – to list admissions of COVID-19 patients since March amidst mounting concerns over bed shortages in the state. Justices Zaka Haq and Anil Kilor issued the directive in the wake ofc a Times of India […]
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The Gujarat High Court has taken the state government to task over the conditions of its health infrastructure amidst renewed complaints about the quality of the state’s public health system. The Times News Network reports that the Gujarat High Court has “directed the government to strengthen its health infrastructure. It has been directed to provide
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Lawmakers in the Lok Sabha have approved reform to Indian abortion law proposed by the Centre, which could expand access to abortion in the country. Parliamentarians in the lower house of the Indian Parliament approved by voice vote the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (Amendment) Bill, 2020, which seeks to amend the Medical Termination of Pregnancy
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The Madras High Court has harshly criticised practitioners of electropathy as ‘quacks’ and asserted that they represent a violation of the right to health conferred upon all Indians. A petition was filed by a number of electropathy practitioners over purported interference in their practices by the authorities. As such, the petitioners sought a forbearance against
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In 36 psychiatric hospitals across 24 states, thousands of Indians continue to stay even after reporting positive treatment outcomes according to a recent report published in The Times of India. This is what a petition filed before the Supreme Court by advocate Guarav Kumar Bansal alleges. “Holding [patients] indefinitely in the hospital amounts to illegal
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“I saw a woman burning in the street,” Vijay Kukade told BBC Marathi. He was recalling a gruesome incident, in which a woman on her way to the college where she lectured was attacked and set alight by a man whom her family said had been stalking her for some time. Tragically, the woman lost
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The Supreme Court will hear on unregulated medical devices tomorrow, ANI reports. Justice N. V. Ramana will head a bench to hear a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by Dr Rohit Jain seeking government action on online sale of medical devices – specifically glucometers and in vitro diagnostic medical devices. Unregulated medical devices, the suit
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The Union Cabinet has approved extending the timeframe in which a woman can avail an abortion to 24 weeks, in what has been described as a “progressive reform”, compared to the current upper limit of twenty weeks at present. This move marks a significant step towards abortion reform law. The approval of the Medical Termination
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The Union Ministry of Home Affairs has rejected the draft law concerning violence against doctors, submitted by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. The Health and Services Personnel and Clinical Establishments (Prohibition of Violence and Damage of Property) Bill would penalise violence against medical practitioners with up to ten years of imprisonment and
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Two non-government organisations (NGOs) are in the process of moving an appeal before the Supreme Court for India to enact a cigarette ban, in the wake of the Government’s prohibition of electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS). Vaping became illegal in India in September with the promulgation of an ordinance by the Union Government, which has
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