In a discussion moderated by Ramya Kannan, public health experts Abhay Shukla and T. Sundararaman discuss whether healthcare for all can be a fundamental right. So, this is a ripe time to actually take forward the agenda of right to healthcare and because the right to healthcare, if it is to be real, it always has to be universal. On the first, I think it is an easy one, that the right to health and the right to healthcare are different things. The right to healthcare is enforceable in a certain way, but in this context, the right to healthcare is something that should be done immediately. Abhay Shukla: About the issue of universal healthcare, we need a system for universal healthcare, which is a complement to the right to healthcare kind of scenario.

Source: The Hindu May 07, 2020 18:36 UTC