The Constitution of India has provisions regarding the right to health. The obligation of the State to ensure the creation and the sustaining of conditions congenial to good health is cast by the Constitutional directives contained in articles 38, 39 (e) (f), 42, 47 and 48 A in Part IV of the Constitution of India In this article following aspects are studied in the light of provisions of constitution of India and various judicial pronouncements: Medico-legal cases and Right to Health Care and Medical Assistance; Medical Examination of rape victim and Right to health care; Working of Blood Banks and Right to Health Care; Cases of HIV/AIDS and Right to health care; Living and working conditions of workers and right to health care; Mentally ill person and right to Health care; Biomedical Waste and Right to Health Care; Pollution and Right to health Care.
Right to Health Care, Constitution, Judicial Pronouncements, Medico-Legal Cases
