Constitutional Perspective of Health Laws

An Overview

Abstract

People have become health conscious because of increase in per capital, free medical schemes launched by the Government from time to time and dissemination of information through mass media and now more particularly through social media. The Government has come up with diverse laws to safeguard the interest of Patients. The patients now enjoy contractual as well as story protection but it is the constitutional protection that has wider reach as enunciated by the courts from time. This paper makes an attempt to provide an overview of constitutional perspective of health laws.