In a significant landmark eye opener judgment for all Doctors & hospitals in India, the Supreme Court by a bench of two learned Justice has observed that members of the medical profession owe a constitutional duty to treat the have-nots and that they cannot refuse to treat a person who is in dire need of treatment by a particular medicine or by a particular expert. Merely on the ground that he is not in a position to afford the fee payable for such an opinion/treatment. Learned judges stated clearly and loudly that medical profession deals with the life of human beings.
There has to be balancing of human rights with the commercial gains. Members of the medical profession owe a constitutional duty to treat the have-nots. They cannot refuse to treat a person who is in dire need of treatment by a particular medicine or by a particular expert merely on the ground that he is not in a…
