COVID 19 – Double Pandemic for Persons with Disabilities

by- Aadya Ambastha “Disabled people are not only the most deprived human beings in the developing world, but they also are the most neglected.” -Amartya Sen Disability is a complex phenomenon. According to the World Health Organization, the term “disability” covers three things. First being impairment which is a complication in body structure and function....

mHealth: Expanding Access to Healthcare and the Legal Challenges in Indian Context

by-Raj Shekhar & Ujjwal Singh   “The hare of science and technology lurches ahead. The tortoise of the law ambles slowly behind”[i] Introduction: mHealth Revolutionizing the Traditional Health Care The World Health Organisation defines digital health as “a broad umbrella term encompassing eHealth, as well as emerging areas, such as the use of advanced computing...

Healthcare, Human Rights and the COVID 19 Lockdown: Why Healthcare Legislations Matter?

by- Zaid Drabu and Aiman Hashmi                1.3 billion Indian citizens are currently under the world’s biggest lockdown and the emerging visuals have unearthed an egregious lack of planning and institutional failure to uphold human rights. On 24th March when the lockdown was announced, it came as a volte-face...

Mental Healthcare in Consonance with Nationwide Lockdown

by- Shambhavi Singh, Kumar Aditya Abstract The ongoing pandemic is hitting life across the globe - toppling structures and economies globally. This blog highlights the Indian overview of the pandemic on Mental healthcare amid nationwide lockdown. According to India's National Mental Health Survey 2015-16, 10.6 per cent of India's 1.3 billion population suffers from mental...

Impact of Health Laws on Persons with Disabilities in India: A Short Study

by- Manisha Sudarshan                                       The sort of disabilities can be substantial, in character apprehensive, detectable, or paradoxically sensitive. The inception of all human beings is guided in the rule of gratuitous and uniform nobility and integrity. Throughout...

Patient Rights in a Pandemic: An Indian Perspective

by- Manpreet Singh                       INTRODUCTION Formalized in 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes “the inherent dignity” and the “equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family”.[1] However, in this kind of public mood when Healthcare workers fear for their life, there...

E-Health

by- KAVYA ARORA                              Introduction In 2015, the health ministry had made plans to set up E-Health care systems in India, to promote and regulate the implementation of E-Health solutions and to set standards for the health sector. Electronic Health means to...

A Fish cannot climb a tree: A new perspective towards Disability

by- YASH JAIN, AYUSHI DUBEY                The definition of disability is not rationally determined but socially constructed. The world is a place with people from different backgrounds, diversities, culture and living conditions owing to different perspectives over the same issue. However, despite these variations, there are still some issues...

Defining ‘disability’, Have we gotten it right? A Comparative Perspective

by- SHANTANU LAKHOTIA                                Introduction: The Government of India in 2016, had passed the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016, (“New Act”) and consequently repealed the Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunity Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995(“Old Act”)....