Right to health

PHILIPPINES: Torture; labour rights; violence against women; excessive use of force in dispersal of protest; denial of medical treatment; arbitrary use of authority by police; possible delay in adjudication of cases; collapse of rule of law ————————————— Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that the workers who were injured in […]

The Asian Human Rights Commission welcomes the landmark ruling by the Supreme Court of Nepal on Monday February 13, 2006, which declared the controversial Royal Commission for Corruption Control (RCCC) unconstitutional and ordered it to be scrapped immediately. This has paved the way for the release of ousted Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, who had […]

[RE: UP-013-2006: BANGLADESH: Three persons tortured by the Chapainawabganj police; UA-041-2006: BANGLADESH: Eight people killed and at least one hundred injured by police fire in Chapainawabganj district; UA-013-2006: BANGLADESH: Two people killed and thirty-five injured by police fire in Chapainawabganj district] ———————————– UP-016-2006: BANGLADESH: Three detained and tortured leaders have been released from prison in […]

[RE: UA-112-2004: BURMA: Complaints against forced labour blocked and victims punished issued on 3 September 2004; UP-11-2005: BURMA: Four officials sentenced to prison for forced labour in Kawmhu Township, Yangon Division; UP-63-2005: BURMA: Local officials seek revenge against villager who obtained first successful forced labour prosecution; UP-68-2005: BURMA: Preliminary hearing against villager who obtained first […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to bring to your attention a situation which is ongoing at the Anuradhapura Hospital Dialyses Unit.  In an article that appeared in the Daily Mirror on 5 January 2006 entitled ‘Dialysis machine is old say Medical Specialists’, the author, Wijitha Kumarasiri, reported on the appalling situation […]

[RE: UP-43-2005: SAUDI ARABIA/SRI LANKA: Questions remain in Sri Lanka’s willingness to save three of its citizens; UP-39-2005: Three Sri Lankans face imminent execution in Saudi Arabia; UP-38-2005: SAUDI ARABIA/SRI LANKA: Please send a letter to the King of Saudi Arabia urging his intervention to commute the death sentence of three Sri Lankans; UP-34-2005: Death […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding 73 workers from the Orex Factory in Ekala, Jaela, Sri Lanka, who were unlawfully dismissed after the owner arbitrarily closed down the factory in 2002. The AHRC previously reported that the owner, Mohamed Mohamed Izzath deprived his workers of the Employees Trust […]

Seven doctors from the Negombo Hospital threatened to go on strike if they were not provided with free legal aid in a case before the Negombo Magistrate’s Court, where they had been summoned to appear. Prior to this, the doctors had been on strike to protest against a police inquiry into allegations of medical negligence […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information through its local partner MASUM in West Bengal that Mr. Gopen Sharma, a human rights activist was illegally detained, threatened and assaulted by the officers at the Block Development Office in Jalangi, Murshidabad District, West Bengal. Mr. Sharma was, at the time of the […]

[Re: UA- 50 -2005: INDIA: Three and a half year wait for justice for the brutal murder of an Adivasi (tribal person) by a forest official in Gujarat] Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information on the case of Manishbhai Motibhai Vasava (30), an adivasi who was murdered by an Indian […]

The Asian Human Rights Commission condemns the strike reported to be taking place at the Negombo Government Hospital as baseless, unjust, unprofessional and amounting to holding sick people to ransom in order to avoid their responsibilities and to prevent the operation of the due process of law.  The Asian Human Rights Commission further states that […]

SRI LANKA: Prescribing of Western medicines by Ayurvedic practitioner; over prescribing of medicines; medical neglect ——————————————————————— Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received disturbing information regarding the death of a one-year-old child after an Ayurvedic practitioner, posing as a qualified medical doctor, prescribed medicines three times the amount that a child of […]

[UA-67-2005: A woman’s healthy leg was amputated at the Negombo General Hospital due to mistaken identity; UP-51-2005: No investigation has yet been conducted into the mistaken amputation of a woman’s leg; UP-56-2005: Hospital authorities’ attempt to obtain false declaration from victim to escape liability] Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information […]

The police have begun investigating a case of alleged negligence resulting in a woman’s leg being wrongly amputated at the Negombo Base Hospital in Sri Lanka. They are pursuing the matter under section 329 of the Penal Code of Sri Lanka, which reads: “Whoever causes grievous hurt to any person by doing any act so […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the death of a woman, Shiroma Doreen Fernando (41), who died due to a transfusion with the incorrect blood type after undergoing a surgical operation at the Negombo Base Hospital on 26 April 2005. Fernando was undergoing an operation to remove swelling from […]

Within the last two weeks alone, the Asian Human Rights Commission has reported on three cases of alleged gross medical negligence in Sri Lanka. First, a 48-year-old mother alleged that her healthy leg was accidentally amputated at the Negombo Base Hospital. Secondly, a 45-year-old mother reportedly died after receiving a transfusion of the wrong blood […]

[Re: UP-51-2005: SRI LANKA: No investigation has yet been conducted into the mistaken amputation of a woman’s leg, UA-67-2005: A woman’s healthy leg was amputated at the Negombo General Hospital due to mistaken identity] Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that agents of the Negombo General Hospital, which was responsible […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) refers to our urgent appeal issued on 22 April 2005 regarding the case of Ms. Citthi Naseera (48) who suffered the amputation of a healthy limb due after the hospital surgical staff failed to correctly ascertain her identity (See further: UA-67-2005). Despite the matter receiving widespread publicity, no […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a healthy leg of Ms. Citthi Naseera (48) was mistakenly amputated at the Negombo General Hospital on 1 March 2005. She is still in hospital. In the meantime, the hospital authorities attempt to cover up the case. Up until now no inquiries have […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (MASUM) regarding the death by starvation of a young pregnant mother. Ms. Bulbuli Paul, a pregnant 25 year-old mother of two, died at almost full term (nine months). The cause of death was reported as malnutrition by the health officer […]