The Indian Constitution provides right to health as one of the fundamental rights in corollary to right to life. Yet people are deprived of the basic health services. This leads to the violations for their fundamental rights, non implementation of Supreme Court orders on maternal health and provisions of international conventions on health. Thus the state failure to protect and prevent the maternal health situation gives us the distance dream in achieving Minimum Development Goal to improve the maternal health situation in the country.
Lawyers and Social Activists from HRLN visited JSB Civil Hospital and found that the hospital fails to provide basic health facilities to large population of the district. It fails to provide services like medicines, doctors, transport. People prefer going to private hospitals instead of civil hospital.
Apart from the primary data, the team also analysed reports and academic literature as secondary sources of information.
The full Fact Finding report is attached here.
Contact: Pritisha Borah; pritisha@hrln.org
