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The Karnataka government has taken a historic decision. The state government is providing “right to respectable death” to patients. Karnataka has become the first state to implement the Supreme Court’s directive. In 2023, the Supreme Court, in one of its orders, allowed the right to die with respect for sick patients, who have no hope of recovering or anymore treatment is no longer benefiting from the treatment. This order will be applicable in all government and private medical institutions in the state, where such patients are admitted.
In which circumstances will be allowed?
Karnataka Health Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao announced that the state health department has issued a historic order to implement the Supreme Court’s directive to ‘Right to death with honors’. The Health Minister said in a post on ‘X’ that the department has released an advance medical instruction (AMD) or ‘Living Will’ (Life will), in which patients can register their desire for their treatment in future.
Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao said that this decision “will be beneficial for doctors and families of patients who have no hope.” The minister clarified that this decision should not be confused with suicide and it applies only to patients who are on life support system and are not reacting to life -saving treatment.
The minister also stated that Karnataka has introduced a “pre -medical instruction” (Advance Medical Directive – AMD), a type of living will in which the patient can record his medical treatment related desires in the future. “Under the pre -medical instruction, the patient will need to nominate two persons, if he loses his decision to take his decision, he will take health -related decisions on his behalf. This document will be helpful to medical professionals to decide that the patient What type of medical treatment is needed or not.
What is the order of the state government?
In a formal order issued on Thursday, the state government said that any neurologist, neurosurgeon, surgeon, anesthetist or intelligent, which has been approved by the appropriate authority under the Human Ang and Transplant Act, 1994, it has been approved by the District Health Officer (DHO) The medical experts will nominate as members of the secondary board to certify such deaths.
The Supreme Court had directed that there will be two boards to monitor such cases-
- At a primary board hospital level
- The second secondary board at the district level, in which DHO or their nominated person will be part of the district level board.
Dr. Roop Gurshini, a neurologist at Mumbai’s PD Hinduja National Hospital and Medical Research Center, is associated with the movement of respectable death. He said that Karnataka has become the first state in the country, allowing respectable death for incurable patients. He said that Goa, Maharashtra and Kerala have passed some rules and instructions, but their efforts have remained incomplete.
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