Right to health of prisoners

Right to health: Mostly prisoners  do not enjoy a right to free and qualified ,frequent medical attention.They don’t  have choice to have physician of their own unless when his condition is critical then the doctor may come.Thus they have become “double hand cap”.It violates  right to health of a prisoner.Right to life includes right to health. In the case of VEENA SETHI v. STATE OF BIHAR [(1982)2 SCC 583] Supreme Court explained the importance of medical care to prisoners.

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