Right to Health with Sudhakar Solomonraj (HRW Day 1)

HUMAN RIGHTS WEEK

INAUGURAL SESSION 


Session: Right to Health.

Speaker: Sudhakar Solomonraj.

Date: 10th December 

Time: 5:00-6:30 PM

Moderation: Palak Surti and Priyanka Mishra.

On 10th December 1948, United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Political Science Association (PSA) of Wilson College had a session on Right to Health by Sudhakar Solomomraj, this was the inaugural session as well as the first session of the human rights week. 

Sudhakar Solomonraj is a professor at Wilson College, a Nature Educator, and a Conservationist. He represented Western Region as part of the Indian team at the Silver Jubilee celebrations of  World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) International at Asissi, Italy. He has been associated with the Silent Valley Movement and the Narmada Bachao Andolan. Sanctuary Asia awarded him the ‘Green Teacher’ award in 2010 and he is the author of the book ‘Living Nature’.

As per the speaker, the Right to health is supplementary to Article 21(Right to Life), which is a fundamental right according to Indian Constitution, which also includes rights to clean living conditions. Swachh Bharat Mission promotes the right to hygiene. Rights exist in particular socio-political systems. 1966 and 2007, there are 8 core conventions in Human rights.

It is difficult to constitute a right to health, Covid 19 majority citizen of India was not accessible to ventilator and oxygen due to a lack of basic access to health care support system. Union budget of India on health is 1.29% of its total expenditure.  Many are not aware of the Right to health for workers is mentioned in Article 39(e) DPSP. The problem of social structure barring access to health care.

Yavatmal had the highest no. of death due to pesticide poisoning in Maharashtra. Zharugad in Jharkhand was the only operational mine of uranium in India. Nagaland, Uttar Pradesh, and Bihar are the worst in providing health support for women. No primary health care centre in a rural part of India. In Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra doesn’t have a primary medical health supply or professional. Nandurbar had the largest number of child death due to malnutrition. Kashmir has a health facility located in the capital city. Speaker questioned, ‘why public health is not an issue in the election?’

We must ask questions ourselves, when did the last public health care system was set up in the town, city, or village. Investment in the public health care system is a continuous problem, discrimination against PWD. Diseases such as cancer can be treated but suck money. Tuberculosis is due to a lack of nutrition in food. 

Mental health is one of the important parts of health. According to the speaker, health care should be accessible to the poor and policy changes are needed for reforms in a robust Health care system. Design thinking: keeping end-users in mind while formulating policy. Health care should provide nourishment and must be helpful to marginalized people in society. The problem of Social structure barring access to healthcare.


Report drafted by Yamunadevi Gupta (SYBA)

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