Abstract

The therapeutic perception of access to medicines and health care in government hospital of Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir (UToJ&K) is an empirical study of Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS), Srinagar in right based approach underpinned in Patents (Amendment) Act, 1970, Patents (Amendment) Act, 1999, Patents (Amendment) Act, 2002 and Patents (Amendment) Act, 2005, Essential Commodities Act, 1955 and Drug Price Control Order, 1995. On the other hand consumer law perspective are rooted in Consumer Protection Act, 1986, J&K Consumer Protection Act, 1987 and Consumer Protection Act, 2019. The broad parameters are access to medicines, health care system, health delivery services, patient satisfaction and utility and doctor – patient relationship. It is estimated that substantial section of population in Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir is health deficient and medicine starved due to unavoidable contingency, spiraling cost shifting and inordinate health care infrastructures. The therapeutic perception needs a closer analysis of attendance and care of patients, diagonostic methods of treatment and access to medicine in the context of medico-legal profiling of SKIMS, Srinagar.

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