SC ultimatum to states on pain killer for cancer patients - NewsX

The Supreme Court today warned the states that their Chief Secretaries would have to appear before it if they failed to comply with its directives to ensure easily availability of "Morphine" preparations, a pain kiler for terminally ill cancer patients. A bench of justices B S Chauhan and Swatanter Kumar granted 3 weeks time to defaulting states to comply with the directive by filing affidavits, failing which it said their Chief Secretaries would have to appear in person. The apex court passed the order while dealing with a 2007 PIL filed by an NGO Indian Association of Palliative Care pleading for easy access for Morphine to cancer patients in the country.

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