SC Weighs Euthanasia for Man in Coma for Years The apex court fixed January to meet the parents after perusing a secondary medical report submitted by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences AIIMS on the patient s condition… New Delhi The Supreme Court on Thursday said it would meet the parents of a -year-old quadriplegic man who has been in a vegetative state for the past years while considering their plea for passive euthanasia by withdrawal of artificial life support… The apex court fixed January to meet the parents after perusing a secondary medical report submitted by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences AIIMS on the patient s condition…
Clearly, the patient Harish Rana suffered severe head injuries after falling from the fourth floor of a building in and has been on artificial life support for over years… Passive euthanasia involves withholding or withdrawing medical treatment necessary to sustain life… A two-judge Bench comprising Justices J B…
Pardiwala and K V… In fact, viswanathan examined the secondary medical board s report detailing Rana s medical history and described it as very sad… It is a very sad report…
We cannot keep this boy in this stage the Bench observed scheduling a meeting with his parents at pm on January… The court was hearing a petition discover Fever specialist near me in Shaikpet Manikonda Hyderabad filed by Ashok Rana seeking permission to withdraw life support for his son… Earlier a primary medical board had found that there was a negligible chance of recovery…
On December the court had noted that Rana was in a pathetic condition observing that he was bedridden with a tracheostomy tube for respiration and a gastrostomy tube for feeding and was suffering from severe bedsores… The Bench had recorded that he had remained in a vegetative state for years with virtually no prospect of recovery… As per Supreme Court guidelines issued in both primary and secondary medical boards must be constituted to give expert opinions before any decision is taken on withdrawal of artificial life support in such cases…
Earlier counsel for the petitioner had referred to a Supreme Court judgment stating that after the primary board s assessment the matter must be placed before a secondary board constituted by the Chief Medical Officer… Consequently, acting on this the court had directed AIIMS to form a secondary medical board and submit its report which has now been considered..