Veena Sharma v. State Bank of India and Ors
Country: IndiaYear: 2001
Court: High Court - Patna
Citation: 2001 (49) BLJR 1543; (2001) IILLJ 1333 Pat
Health Topics: Chronic and noncommunicable diseases, Health care and health services, Health systems and financing, Hospitals
Human Rights: Right to health, Right to life
Veena Sharma, the Petitioner, submitted medical bills incurred during her late husband’s hospitalization. After contracting a disease, her late husband was admitted to a hospital. After being discharged, his condition deteriorated. On the recommendation of the State of India, the Respondent, and the Bank’s doctor, he was admitted in a different private hospital. Upon submitting …Read more
R v. North West Lancashire Health Authority, ex parte A, D, & G
Country: United KingdomYear: 1999
Court: Court of Appeal, Civil Division
Citation: [1999] EWCA Civ 2022; [2000] 1 WLR 977
Health Topics: Health care and health services, Health systems and financing, Mental health, Sexual and reproductive health
Human Rights: Freedom from discrimination, Right to health
North West Lancashire Health Authority (the Authority), the Appellant, appealed against an order quashing the Authority’s decision to refuse gender reassignment treatment to A, D and G, the Respondents. A, D and G all suffered from “gender identity dysphoria,” or transsexualism. Each had male physical characteristics but female sexual identity. A and G had been …Read more
State of Punjab v. Ram Lubhaya Bagga
Country: IndiaYear: 1998
Court: Supreme Court
Citation: (1998) 1 SCR 1120
Health Topics: Health care and health services, Health systems and financing, Hospitals
Human Rights: Right to health, Right to life, Right to social security
Government employees and pensioners of the State of Punjab were the beneficiaries of a policy (the Policy) for reimbursement of medical expenses, which was adopted in February 1995, authorising treatment outside Punjab at rates determined by the State Medical Board. The Policy replaced an older Policy of the state government. An employee of the Punjab …Read more
Joint Stock Company “Transkop”, Bitola to the Constitutional Court
Country: MacedoniaYear: 1997
Court: Constitutional Court
Citation: 77/1998-0-0
Health Topics: Health care and health services, Health systems and financing
Human Rights: Freedom from discrimination, Right to health, Right to social security
The Joint Stock Company ‘Transkop’, Bitola (the Company), challenged two bylaws establishing conditions on the funding of treatment abroad by the Health Insurance Fund. These bylaws were the Rulebook on the conditions and manner for referring the insurees to treatment abroad (the Rulebook) and the Resolution of the Minister of Health no.02-1439/1 delivered on February …Read more
State of Punjab and Ors. v. Mohinder Singh Chawala
Country: IndiaYear: 1996
Court: Supreme Court
Citation: CIVIL APPEAL NOS.16980-81 OF 1996
Health Topics: Health care and health services, Health systems and financing, Hospitals
Human Rights: Right to health, Right to life
Mohinder Singh (the Respondent) had a heart ailment, the treatment for which was not available in the State of Punjab. After obtaining the requisite permission, he received the appropriate treatment from All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, a state run hospital. On submitting the bills for reimbursement, bills for room rent paid …Read more
Surjit Singh v. State of Punjab and others
Country: IndiaYear: 1996
Court: Supreme Court
Citation: 1996 AIR 1388; 1996 SCC (2) 336; JT 1996 (2) 28; 1996 SCALE (1)648
Health Topics: Health care and health services, Health systems and financing, Hospitals
Human Rights: Right to life
Surjit Singh, the Appellant, developed a heart condition when he was the Deputy Superintendent Police. While on leave to visit his son in England, the Appellant had to be admitted into a hospital for by-pass surgery. On returning to India, he submitted his medical bills for reimbursement. The State of Punjab, the Respondent, had agreed …Read more
R v. Cambridge Health Authority, ex parte Beckwith
Country: United KingdomYear: 1995
Court: Court of Appeal, Civil Division
Citation: [1995] 2 All ER 129 (CA); [1995] EWCA Civ 49
Health Topics: Child and adolescent health, Chronic and noncommunicable diseases, Health care and health services, Health systems and financing, Hospitals, Informed consent, Medicines
Human Rights: Right to health, Right to life
The child “B” had a long history of unsuccessful treatments fo her cancer. In January 1995, B suffered a further relapse of acute myeloid leukaemia. Both the doctor who oversaw B’s treatment since the initial diagnosis and the doctor who performed a prior bone marrow transplant agreed that the child had approximately six to eight …Read more
Doe v. Wigginton
Country: United StatesYear: 1994
Court: 6th Circuit Court of Appeal
Citation: 21 F.3d 733 (1994)
Health Topics: Health care and health services, Health information, HIV/AIDS, Infectious diseases, Medicines, Prisons
Human Rights: Right of access to information, Right to due process/fair trial, Right to liberty and security of person, Right to privacy
The Appellant, Doe, a prisoner incarcerated in Kentucky, brought this challenge alleging his constitutional rights under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments were violated by Policy 13.5 (the Policy), a Kentucky rule which restricted the eligibility of inmates for “at-request” HIV testing. In January 1989, at an initial medical screening following his incarceration, Doe requested that …Read more
K.H. v. Malmöhus Läns Landstingskommun
Country: SwedenYear: 1990
Court: Supreme Court
Citation: NJA 1990 s 442 – Målnummer No. 40
Health Topics: Health care and health services, Health information, Hospitals, Informed consent, Medical malpractice
Kerstin H. had an operation intended to lessen pain in her hip, however after the operation she still suffered from the original ailment as well as new pain. Prior to the operation, Kerstin H. had been informed that the doctors aimed “to clean up the area around the nerve” (the doctors had also used such …Read more
Alexander v. Choate
Country: United StatesYear: 1985
Court: Supreme Court
Citation: 469 U.S. 287 (1985)
Health Topics: Disabilities, Health care and health services, Health systems and financing, Mental health, Poverty
Human Rights: Freedom from discrimination, Right to social security
In response to increasing projected state Medicaid costs, the directors of the Tennessee Medicaid program decided to implement a number of cost saving measures. Among these measures was a proposed reduction in the number of annual days of inpatient hospital care covered by the program from 20 to 14 days per fiscal year. Respondents, Tennessee …Read more