Supreme Court's Ruling on the Right to Emergency Care

paddy · Post by **paddy** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 11:24 pm

Right to Emergency Care: By Supreme Court

Now, do not hesitate to help people who have met with an accident…

Right to Emergency Care:

The Supreme Court has ruled that all injured persons especially in the case
of road traffic accidents, assaults, etc., when brought to a hospital /
medical centre, have to be offered first aid, stabilized and shifted to a
higher centre / government centre if required.

It is only after this that the hospital can demand payment or complete
police formalities.

In case you are a bystander and wish to help someone in an accident, please
go ahead and do so.

Your responsibility ends as soon as you leave the person at the hospital.
The hospital bears the responsibility of informing the police, first aid,
etc.

Please do inform your family and friends about these basic rights so that
we all know what to expect and what to do in the hour of need.

If you could pass this information on to all the people, u may get some
help from anybody (who has read this mail), when u've met with an accident…

Pray for no accidents to happen… in case if any happens… pls help the
victim immediately… don't wait for others to help…Take u'r chance to make
u'r life meaningful…!

Post by **cottage cheese** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 11:28 pm

As you say sir.

saahil · Post by **saahil** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 12:25 am

HI ALL
now i really wish our country to be governed by supreme court instead of these good for nothing politicians.

snIPer · Post by **snIPer** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 9:25 am

Military rule for a year or so should get all these buggers off their A(*&(

Post by **eljefe** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 11:40 am

This is circa 97, but was brought to public notice around 2002!
Just goes to show the apathy and insensitivity to human life...
As some one who is involved on a daly basis in Medical emergency care, it is apalling to know that in Delhi, premier institutes like safdarjung and AIIMS DONOT accept patients who are intubated (from other hospitals) so the part about shifting to Govt Hospitals after stabilisation is a laugh! I face it on a daily basis!!
How ever, it is very heartening to note that a lot of bystanders who would, in the past, be scared of police involvement, are now stepping forward to shift accident victims to hospitals.
I follow the rule that i am not the judge, jury or executioner and DO NOT ask for the samaritans ID. Just thank them for bringing the victim over...

Japalouppe · Post by **Japalouppe** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 2:51 pm

had helped a guy who had been run over by a truck in front of the farm, its been a year and a half and i still have to make chakkars to the court for his case.

Poor man didnt make it, but the cops n the judiciary make me wish that i hadnt gotten involved...

didnt know the law on this thanks man, will have a talk with his lawyer. every time i say that im not going his wife says that their only hope of winning the case is with me...

feel sad but man its a pain now

Hunter · Post by **Hunter** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 3:10 pm

A Victory for the common man!

hamiclar01 · Post by **hamiclar01** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 7:21 pm

eljefe";p="28360 wrote: As some one who is involved on a daly basis in Medical emergency care, it is apalling to know that in Delhi, premier institutes like safdarjung and AIIMS DONOT accept patients who are intubated (from other hospitals)

this is news. i worked in AIIMS till 2003 and do remember intubated admissions. more so since i was often their first/last port of call before the ICU transfer. of course AIIMS always has a bed crisis since we were not allowed to overflow, but patients being refused beds was for everyone, not only intubated customers. maybe things have gone from bad to worse now. and safdarjung hated us since they could not refuse admissions at all

shooter · Post by **shooter** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 8:06 pm

typical scene in movies is doctors in hospitals refusing to treat bullet wounds/ road traffic accidents saying it is a 'police case'.

by law , there is provision of care and doctor is acting in good faith to save the life of the pt.

but in reality, any dr., esp in the private sector who treats such cases is in for a mountainload of c@#p. man they harass you so much, one refuses such cases and thus the typical hindi movie hero forcing the doctor on gunpoint to save his friend.

even ive had first hand experience of being harassed by authorities for having transported a road traffic victim to the hospital.

msandhu · Post by **msandhu** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 10:05 am

The supreme court order is a common sense approach. First save the life of the patient and then inquire about anything else. Its the moral duty of the hospital or any person to save the life of a person and once the person in out of danger, then they can inquire about his wareabout or injuries and do all other police formalities. for this humane approach, neither hospital/docs nor the person who bought the patient to doc should be punished or harassed.

Japalouppe · Post by **Japalouppe** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 1:07 pm

But thats not the way it is na!!!!

Dunno what the cops hope to get out of this..... or the courts??

why do this?

Why discourage the good samaritan?

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