Study of medico-legal case management in tertiary Care Hospital.

ABSTRACT

Article 21 of the constitution guarantees protection of life and liberty to every citizen as well as non-citizens. Right to health care and medical assistance is integral to the right to life and the state has a constitutional obligation to provide health facilities. Failure of a government and other hospital to provide a patient timely medical treatment results in violation of the patient‘s right to life. The study comprising about medicolegal case (MLC) management, awareness and prevalent practices among the health care professionals especially among those who directly or indirectly involve with treatment of patients. As for awareness is concern regarding especially regarding procedural awareness, the documentation and various other medico-legal issues were studied in detail. Contrary to the popular belief that doctors who deals with the extreme situation of life but suffer some kind of medicolegal phobia in his work except few especially those who are in feeling of government immunity have genuine or in-genuine boldness in dealing with medicolegal cases.