Rakesh P S
Assistant Professor; Department of Community Medicine, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Amrita Viswa Vidyapeetham, Kochi 682 041, Kerala, India,.
Indian J Med Ethics. 2016 Jul-Sep;1(3):156-60. doi: 10.20529/IJME.2016.043.
Recently, many states in India have invoked various provisions of the Epidemic Diseases Act of 1897 to control communicable diseases. In this context, the Act was reviewed with reference to its relevance in the current context of surveillance and other relevant Acts and legislations at the national and international levels. It is felt that the Act has major limitations in the current scenario as it is outdated, merely regulatory and not rights-based, and lacks a focus on the people. There is a need for an integrated, comprehensive, actionable and relevant legal provision for the control of outbreaks in India.
最近，印度许多邦援引了1897年《传染病法》的各项条款来控制传染病。在此背景下，对该法案进行了审查，考量其在当前国家和国际层面的监测背景以及其他相关法律法规中的相关性。人们认为，该法案在当前情况下存在重大局限性，因为它过时了，只是监管性的而非基于权利的，并且缺乏对民众的关注。印度需要一项综合、全面、可操作且相关的法律条款来控制疫情爆发。
