{"id":242296,"date":"2023-05-13T20:00:06","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T14:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=242296"},"modified":"2023-05-15T15:25:56","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T09:55:56","slug":"diagnostic-imaging-of-the-rajasthan-right-to-health-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/diagnostic-imaging-of-the-rajasthan-right-to-health-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Diagnostic imaging of the Rajasthan Right to Health Act"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cDiagnostic imaging of the Rajasthan Right to Health Act<\/strong>\u201d published in The Hindu <\/strong>on\u00a013th<\/sup> May 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus: GS 2 \u2013 Government Policies & Interventions in Various Sectors<\/strong><\/p>\n

Relevance: <\/strong>concerns associated with Rajasthan\u2019s Right to Health (RTH) Bill<\/p>\n

News<\/strong>: The Rajasthan Right to Health (RTH) Bill has been controversial and there have been oppositions to it.<\/p>\n

What are some of the flaws in the Rajasthan\u2019s Right to Health (RTH) Bill?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Addition of extra provisions:<\/strong> \u00a0The problem with the bill is that additional changes\/amendments have been added in the bill other than those recommended by the select committee.<\/p>\n

For instance,<\/strong> the term \u2018designated health care centres\u2019 was introduced, and a reimbursement clause for unpaid emergency care was added.<\/p>\n

These extra additions are praiseworthy but most other changes in the amended Bill were not beneficial in protecting public health interests.<\/p>\n

Lack of representation of medical representatives:<\/strong> The bill initially included three representatives, from ayurveda, homoeopathy, and unani, as ex-officio members from the state health authority.<\/p>\n

However, the amended bill had provision for only one representative<\/strong> from the alternative medical systems, with medical education representatives filling for the remaining two.<\/p>\n

Further, the amended Bill swapped public health experts with Indian Medical Association (IMA) representatives as nominated members. This left state and district health authorities with little or no representation.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Restricting powers of the administrative organs:<\/strong> The grievance redress system proposed in the initial iteration underwent a considerable change in the amended Bill.<\/p>\n

For example,<\/strong> the grievance redress system was initially proposed to be handled through web portals, helpline centres, and officers concerned within 24 hours.<\/p>\n

However, patient grievances will now be handled by the concerned health-care institution <\/strong>within three days. This may lead to conflict of interests and add more burdens to the hospitals.<\/p>\n

Lacks in public health representation:<\/strong> Health care laws should also focus on health promotion, disease prevention, and nutrition. However, the RTH does not aim to serve these purposes.<\/p>\n

Repealing the Act:<\/strong> Some of those opposing the bill have called to repeal the law due to the ambiguous definitions of some terms such as the definition of emergency.<\/p>\n

However, there are ambiguities even with widely accepted medical definitions. Therefore, it is required that all parties should come together to best elaborate the definitions rather than repealing a Bill.<\/p>\n

What are some of the advantages of the bill?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The State government has stated that private multispecialty hospitals with less than 50 beds, and those that have not received government subsidised land\/buildings, will be temporarily exempted from the bill.<\/p>\n

This provision of the bill was widely accepted by the doctors\u2019 associations.<\/p>\n

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What lessons can be learnt from the RTH bill of Rajasthan?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The lessons learnt are – a)<\/strong> laws should be carefully drafted to avoid oppositions, b)<\/strong> the government should not get influenced by organised medical interest alone in preparing any health policy, c)<\/strong> governments and the medical community should also make themselves aware of the broader social dimensions of health and health legislation and d)<\/strong> governments should be aware that adopting such kind of legislation without being financially ready might backfire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cDiagnostic imaging of the Rajasthan Right to Health Act\u201d published in The Hindu on\u00a013th May 2023. Syllabus: GS 2 \u2013 Government Policies & Interventions in Various Sectors Relevance: concerns associated with Rajasthan\u2019s Right to Health (RTH) Bill News: The Rajasthan Right to Health (RTH) Bill has been controversial… Continue reading Diagnostic imaging of the Rajasthan Right to Health Act<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10283,10498],"class_list":["post-242296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-right-to-health","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":2,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1700946188},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}