As a symbolic gesture, it is great to make health a justiciable right; but as citizenry, we would be foolish to let the healthcare debate be hijacked by this non-issue, or remain satisfied by a piece of legislation The draft National Health Policy 2015 (NPH) released by the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government on 31 December 2014 seems to have its heart in the right place. Its intentions are noble??niversal and affordable healthcare. Its understanding of the challenges is clear??athetic state of primary care, scarcity of trained human resources, fragmented approach to healthcare delivery, and so on. And its strategies for improving what it calls ??ealth outcomes??border on the idealistic: raise government expenditure on healthcare from the current 1.04% to 2.5% of the GDP. More than its avowed goals and strategies, however, what has attracted the most attention so far is the policy?? intent to make health a fundamental right. Doing so would make denial of health ??usticiable????hich basically means that you can sue the state if you are sick and unable to access healthcare.

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