Human rights need to be introduced in medical education: Chief Justice Prasanna B Varale

Karnataka High Court Chief Justice Prasanna B Varale attended the 25th Annual Convocation of the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences as the Chief Guest, read here for the details.

While speaking at the 25th annual convocation of the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Karnataka High Court Chief Justice Prasanna B Varale said that human rights need to be introduced in medical and healthcare education.

“The Indian healthcare sector is undergoing a phenomenal shift in outlook and approaches, from a traditional physical approach to an integrated digital approach. We need to explore how human rights education in the health professions can build knowledge, change culture, empower advocacy, and seek to embed human rights norms into core social institutions. Recognising that health care systems are core social institutions, human rights need to be introduced in health professionals’ education,” he said, as reported by Indian Express.

The convocation was also notable as former ISRO chairman K Kasturirangan and Karnataka State Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) head Dr MK Sudarshan were conferred with honorary doctorates.

Chief Justice Prasanna B Varale lauded the efforts of the gold medalist and highlighted it was a great achievement that a majority of the gold medal holders - 85 of 97- were women.

RGUHS is considered one of the top universities offering the best medical education in India with initiatives to make its syllabi for different courses of world-class quality taking it to the forefront of Medical education in India. The phenomenal increase in the number of institutions and students admitted to various courses of medical and allied health sciences warranted the need to regulate, monitor and standardize the curricula as well as the evaluation systems. The product of medical and health science professional education was to meet the societal need for better healthcare. Hence, RGUHS had the vision to bring uniformity in the standards of teaching and have a common curriculum for the various courses offered in different colleges across Karnataka. The medium of instruction is only English, said the official website.

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