VILLUPURAM: Villupuram MP D Ravikumar has advocated the Union justice and law ministry Ravishankar Prasad along with Union health ministry Harsh Vardhan to present a Bill to amend Article 21 of this Constitution to make wellness a basic right of their citizens.
The statute develops importance once the nation is confronting significant public health and financial crisis because of Covid-19.
In a memorandum dated June 1 and addressed Prasad having a backup to Vardhan, Ravikumar said the Constitution doesn’t explicitly guarantee a basic right to health but immediately pointed out that there are many references to the general health and function of the nation from the provision of health care to taxpayers.
“The directive principles of the Constitution give a foundation for its right to health,” he explained.
Citing dictates of the Supreme Court of India, he said the apex court reaffirmed the appropriate health had been essential to the right to existence and must be placed on report that the authorities had a constitutional duty to offer health services.
He pointed out that a high tech group in the health industry contained below the 15th fund commission had recommended the right to medical be announced a basic right.
Ravikumar remembered the Union authorities under the direction of late Prime Minister A B Vajpayee had announced education as a basic right in the Constitution.
“Here is the ideal moment to amend the Constitution to make public health a basic right.
I sincerely ask you to deliver a Bill at the coming monsoon session of this Parliament to amend Article 21 of the Constitution of India and also make health a basic right,” Ravikumar stated from the memorandum.
He mentioned Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) from the United Nations that said,”Everybody has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and health of himself and of his family including food, clothing, health and healthcare.” Ravikumar cautioned the National Health Policy invented in 2017 suggested to increase public health cost to 2.5percent of their GDP at a time-bound fashion that the fund allocation of wellness obtained reduced in the consecutive Union budgets sadly.
“Consequently, the majority of people must pay a hefty fee for healthcare out of pocket not when they avail health care from private industry but for services offered from the public sector health care associations,” he explained.
Amend Article 21 of Constitution to make Wellness a Basic right: Villupuram MP
