Introduction: When we talk about the globalization of health care, we’re addressing how diseases spread quickly across populations and borders to become pandemics, what steps organizations worldwide are taking to standardize health care delivery to ensure patient safety and best outcomes, or why increasing numbers of caregivers are emigrating for Read more…
Introduction: The problem, around illegal kidney transplants, is not new. Nor are the many questions raised around the ethical and moral responsibilities of medical practitioners. It is true that being a medical practitioner a person holds a high level of responsibility, as they are working directly with the lives of Read more…
Introduction: Surrogacy is an assisted reproductive technique (ART) whereby the intended parent/parents (childless couples/individuals) enter into an agreement with the surrogate mother who agrees to carry their baby in her womb until birth. In this technique, the egg and sperm of intended parents/donor are fertilized through IVF (in vitro fertilization) Read more…
Introduction: Law and mental health are two lines that intersect in multiple ways. These two disciplines constantly transform and inform one another. This arena in the past few decades has been significantly broadened when we compare it with the past when people’s understanding of forensic psychiatry was conventionally narrow. Traditionally Read more…
Introduction: The medical workers are called as representatives of God, that is because what they do on a daily basis is save lives. But, by giving them these high standards, we forget to understand that doctors or the healthcare staff are only humans who possess some special knowledge or skills. Read more…
What it means? The medical profession is considered as the noblest and altruistic form of profession but unfortunately not exempted from ill practices which have put the lives of innocent patients in peril. Medical negligence in the healthcare sector is a serious issue faced by citizens in our nation. There Read more…
Introduction: In Poonam Verma vs Ashwin Patel, the Supreme Court differentiated negligence, rashness, and recklessness. A person is said to be a negligent person when he/she inadvertently commits an act of omission and violates a positive duty that he/she should have performed otherwise. A reckless person knows the repercussions of Read more…
Introduction: In the Concerned Case, a grievance recorded before the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) under Section 21 of the Customer Protection Act, 1986 asserting Compensation of Rs. 45 lakhs crediting lack in administration and clinical carelessness in the treatment of the expired, late Shri R.K. Sharma, Sr. Activities Read more…
Facts: The defendant, a resident of Chennai, was riding his bicycle at 08:20 a.m., on 31st December 1991 and suddenly he was hit by a motorcycle. The consequences were that the defendant developed an injury on his leg. At 09:45 a.m. he was admitted to The Surya Hospital, of which Read more…
Introduction: Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) such as surrogacy, artificial insemination, in vitro fertilization have immerged as a blessing for the couples facing infertility. ART can be defined as any other medical technique which is used in an attempt to obtain pregnancy by any other means other than intercourse. In this Read more…
Facts: The respondent was a nurse working at a government hospital in Goa. She has complained of having trouble with abdominal pain in 1993. The doctors in there advised her to consult with Dr. V.N. Shrikhande (appellant) residing in Dadar, Mumbai, having a hospital. After examining the pathologist’s report the Read more…
Introduction: In the outbreak of the COVID-19, the whole world is trying to invent vaccines to combat coronavirus. Likewise, India is also conducting various researches to invent a vaccine of COVID-19 to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and cure. The people who are affect due to deadly COVID-19. To held Read more…