Palliative Care: Supreme Court Gives Centre 3 Weeks to Report on Implementation Of Guidelines

Today, On 13th October, The Supreme Court directed the Centre to submit a report within three weeks on enforcing the 2017 palliative care guidelines, ensuring proper care for terminally ill patients as part of the national health programme, hearing resumes November 25.

Supreme Court Seeks Centre’s Response on PIL for Inclusion of Palliative Care in National Health Programme

In The Supreme Court Today (March 7th), a bench led by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud requested the Centre’s response on Thursday regarding a PIL seeking direction to authorities for the inclusion of palliative care in the national health programme to support terminally-ill individuals.