RPWD has provision on non-discrimination and there is a specific provision on healthcare in Section 25 which obligations are on appropriate government.
If you can follow-up, then it can be a great opportunity to put pressure on MCI to notify standards on this. Regards, Amar Jain Sent from my iPhone > On 09-May-2018, at 6:32 PM, Poonam <poonam.vai...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi friends, > Last month, I was admitted into Sreedhareeyam Ayurvedic Hospital in Kochi. > Before going, I had met the main doctor, Dr. Srikanth in the Sreedhareeyam > clinic Bangalore and discussed plans about going to the hospital without an > assistant. He suggested that I have an assistant for the first 3 days since I > was new and then I could manage alone. So this is what I did. However, on the > second last day before my assistant was due to leave, the doctors started > saying it would not be possible for me to stay alone. The reason they gave me > was that I did not have enough vision to manage. I had already arranged > laundry, cafeteria services, etc and there was absolutely nothing I could not > do alone. However, they still said no and I had to return. > Another Naturopathy hospital, Jindal also has continuously denied me > treatment and finally agreed if I take the most expensive accomodation with > an assistant. > I am writing this to ask any of you who know about the legal angle of denying > a person with disability into a hospital/clinic without an assistant. I > really do not need an assistant nor do I feel comfortable having one. Does > the 2016 PWD Act have anything on this? The two hospitals are private, not > government funded. > I plan to write to the NHAB (National Health Accreditation Board), the > hospital authorities and some journalist friends. Any more suggestions are > welcome. > > > Poonam > > > > > > > > > > Search for old postings at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ > > To unsubscribe send a message to > accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please > visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > > Disclaimer: > 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the > person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; > > 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails > sent through this mailing list.. Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
