Trauma Care & Right to Life | UPSC GS-2 | UPSCPDF
UPSCPDF Editorial Analysis: SC reads trauma care into Article 21 (SaveLIFE Foundation, 2026) — Golden Hour, 112, PM RAHAT, Good Samaritan. Full UPSC GS-2 guide.
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From Policy Aspiration to Constitutional Promise — How the Supreme Court Read Trauma Care into Article 21, and the Survival Architecture of the Golden Hour, 112, PM RAHAT & Good Samaritan Protection On 26 May 2026, in SaveLIFE Foundation & Anr. v. Union of India & Ors. [WP(C) No. 726 of 2024], a Supreme Court bench of Justices J.K. Maheshwari and A.S. Chandurkar held that the right to trauma care is an integral part of the right to life under Article 21. The Court issued time-bound directions to rebuild India's emergency and trauma response system as an enforceable public-health obligation rather than a discretionary service. The judgment recognises that survival after an injury depends not on hospitals alone, but on a full chain of survival — bystanders, a single emergency number, GPS-tracked ambulances, trained responders and graded receiving facilities. Among its directions: integrate helplines (100, 101, 102, 108, 1033, 1091) into 112 within three months; build func
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