NHRC preparing draft legislation on patients’ rights

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) is mulling a draft legislation that seeks to protect the rights of patients and ensure that standard treatment is made available to everyone.

P C Sharma,member,NHRC,said the trend of patients “surrendering themselves before doctors” should end and every patient should have the right to know what kind of disease he has been inflicted with and the kind of treatment needed.

“We have asked the fovernment for the need (for a legislation). We are trying to make a draft with the help of NGOs,” he said.