Health Sector Economics — Key Judgments

Key Judgments

Paschim Banga Khet Mazdoor Samity v. State of West Bengal

1996

This landmark judgment by the Supreme Court affirmed that the right to health is an integral part of the right to life under Article 21 of the Constitution. The Court held that…

Parmanand Katara v. Union of India

1989

The Supreme Court ruled that every doctor, whether at a government hospital or otherwise, has a professional obligation to extend immediate medical aid to a person in need of it,…