Annual Report - National Human Rights Commission

Annexure 8
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(Ambulance or Vehicles) with minimum facilities to give life sustaining treatment
during transit.
3. Drugs availability at reasonable rate within reach of common man.
a) Supply of quality drugs.
b) Ban of spurious drugs envisaging violation as grave crime entailing severe
punishment.
c) There should be a Drug Price Control Policy. Violators should be held
accountable, including penal action.
4. Social responsibility of providing 10% of free service or service on nominal charges
fixed by the State should be made mandatory for all Corporate Hospitals and Private
Nursing Homes with regular accountability entrusted to a body created by the State to
monitor the system.
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Visit of Mobile Hospitals with adequate infrastructure and doctors, at least twice a month,
to a village to treat the ailing people where there is no hospital facility and refer serious
patients to Health Centres or District hospitals.
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To examine the children in all primary and middle schools regularly twice a year and send
report to DMs and/or Collectors, along with names and attestation of Head Master and
Sarpanchs of the village.
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The diet specialist doctors should prepare a list of food articles available in local area and
prepare a chart showing the proportions of food articles to be taken by children, young
boys and girls, pregnant women, old citizens and women from weaker sections, etc. for
strengthening the nutrition of body and to end malnutrition. This exercise should be
done every year and published in local language, put up on Notice Board of Panchayat
offices, Schools and Hospitals of every village.
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It should also publish that the parents should get their children examined regarding their
hearing problems, vision, speech, etc. immediately after they notice any symptom so that at
young age itself the same could be treated.
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The Gram Panchayats (full body) and recognized Non-Governmental Organizations at
village, taluq, and district levels should send quarterly reports about the functioning of
hospitals in their village stating presence or absence of doctors, the period for which one is
absent or no doctor is posted at all, including women doctors, nurses, other medical
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