The rights perspective is missing in the draft of the National Health Policy-2015, said the National Human Rights Commission’s Core Group on Health. It also said that the public health system in the country needs to be made accountable and participatory.
The reconstituted core group, which met here recently to review the 2015 draft, observed that it had not paid enough attention to community action in the health sector. NHRC member S.C. Sinha presided over the meeting.
Mr. Sinha said health, being one of the “most basic and essential assets” of a human being, was a fundamental human right that enabled one to live a life with dignity.
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Among the suggestions made about the draft policy framed by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the core group said it should look into the national action plan on health prepared by the NHRC in collaboration with Jan Swasthya Abhiyaan and the Ministry.
The 2015 policy should also reflect the budget that the government would invest in the health sector, said the core group, while pointing out that it had made no mention of the public-centred universal health care.