Human Rights Law Network is striving to not only guarantee access to healthcare, but to assure that said healthcare is of a high quality, and is dignified for the patient.
All too often, we are collecting numerous reports of patients dying unnecessarily due to a lack of ambulances, hospitals operating under appalling conditions with no electricity and water, and healthcare staff acting disrespectfully and abusively towards patients. Many women reported neglecting to attend a hospital at all because they were so frightened of reports that they had heard regarding how staff members treat patients.
Many fact-findings conducted by HRLN where a mother or infant has died has concluded that the reason for the death can be contributed to negligence and malpractice by the doctor and other healthcare staff. Patients are being verbally harassed, insulted, physically beaten, made to share beds with multiple people, and sometimes imprisoned in healthcare centres when they cannot afford fees. This is a clear violation of the rights to life, freedom from discrimination, the right to health, and freedom from torture.
HRLN is constantly conducting fact-finding missions and subsequently filing public interest litigation petitions based on findings when a poor standard of care is resulting in morbidity and mortality. It is absolutely vital that everybody receives affordable, accessible, sanitary and high quality healthcare, with no fear of disrepsect or abuse.
Quality of Care
Efficacy, safety, cost: India’s decade-old debate on the cervical cancer vaccine erupts again
Adolescents' Sexual Health and Rights, Andra Pradesh, Gujarat, Issues, News, Quality of Care, States
The debate over the use of vaccines to prevent cervical cancer in India came to the fore again last week when the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare indicated that it was unlikely to include Human Papilloma Virus or HPV vaccines in the national immunisation programme.
The health ministry’s decision
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New HRLN Fact-Finding Report: Medical Negligence in Dindori District Hospital, Madhya Pradesh
Issues, Madhya Pradesh, Maternal Health, Quality of Care, Research and Fact Finding, States, WORK
HRLN Researcher Monalisa Burman and intern Anusha Ravishankar travelled to Chulhapani Village in Dindori District, Madhya Pradesh, to investigate a severe case of medical negligence that resulted in a pregnant woman giving birth in a field. Samar Vati was denied services, slapped and abused by healthcare staff, and turned away from
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Supreme Court Orders 2017
Issues, Litigation, Maternal Health, Quality of Care, Safe Abortion, WORK
Available below are all of HRLN's Reproductive Rights Initative's 2017 Orders in the Supreme Court of India.
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Rajasthan Orders 2017
Issues, Publication, Quality of Care, Rajasthan, States, Sterilisation, WORK
Available below are all of HRLN's Reproductive Rights Initative's 2017 Orders in the Rajasthan High Court.
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Madhya Pradesh Orders 2017
Issues, Litigation, Madhya Pradesh, Maternal Health, Quality of Care, States, Sterilisation, WORK
Available below are all of HRLN's Reproductive Rights Initative's 2017 Orders in the High Court of Madhya Pradesh
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Litigation
- Presentations from the Two Day Webinar on Reproductive Rights on 23rd & 24th of May, 2020
- Patna High Court: Ration facility for all transgender persons
- Nikhil Datar vs. Union of India: A long drawn struggle
- Patna High Court gives favourable order in response to the PIL on water logging in the state
- Guwahati High Court delivers landmark judgement; Department of Health and Family Welfare to pay Twenty Five Lakh Rupees to Petitioner in Nagaland
Fact Finding
- Presentations from the Two Day Webinar on Reproductive Rights on 23rd & 24th of May, 2020
- Report on the State level Consultation in Arunachal Pradesh on 2nd & 3rd November, 2019
- Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights Dictionary
News
- Report of the two day webinar on ‘Access to Reproductive Justice’ on 23rd & 24th May, 2020
- Report of the National level consultation on Trans people and women’s issues- 28th & 29th December, 2019
- Nikhil Datar vs. Union of India: A long drawn struggle