New Delhi: The protection of the rights of prisoners having mental health issues is an obligation of state governments under Section 103 of the Mental...
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Deplorable Health Infrastructure in India: NHRC directs Union Health Ministry to compile report
New Delhi: Observing that large number of deaths are taking place due to lack of proper medical care, infrastructure, manpower and due to administrati...
AES Outbreak: NHRC issues notice to Union Health Ministry, Bihar Govt over increasing deaths of children
New Delhi: The National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, India has taken suo motu cognizance of media reports about the rising number of deaths of child...
Human chain formed against violation of patients rights in private hospitals
New Delhi: Over 500 patients, their family members and health activists from across the country formed a human chain at Jantar Mantar here demanding a...
NHRC notice to the Government of Uttar Pradesh over fire in Metro Hospital Noida
The National Human Rights Commission has taken suo motu cognizance of media reports about a massive fire which broke out in the Intensive Care Unit (I...
Baby Decapitation in Rajasthan, NHRC sends notice to Government
the contents of the new report, if true, amount to the violation of human rights of the newly born and the mother and indicate towards gross negligenc...
Burnt patient thrown out of Sadar Hospital, NHRC sends notice to Bihar
Even if the patient himself went out and collapsed, the incident indicates negligence on the part of the ward attendants/ nursing staff of the hospita...
Molestation of a girl patient at Kalwa hospital, NHRC sends notice to Maharashtra Government
New Delhi: The National Human Rights Commission, NHRC has taken suo motu cognizance of media reports that a 39-year-old sweeper tied the hand of a 14-...
Rape of woman at hospital: NHRC notice to Defence Secy, Police Commission, informs Activist
Besides the police, the army too is conducting a ‘court of inquiry’ against the four personnel, who also worked in the same military hospi...
MUST READ: Health ministry releases Draft Patient Charter, invites comments
New Delhi: Through a recent notice, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare had placed in the public domain the National Human Rights Commission dra...
