The Supreme Court today asked the Centre to file within 3 weeks its response on implementation of Palliative Care guidelines issued by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in 2017.

A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta passed the order in a PIL seeking directions for provision of palliative care to terminally-ill persons as part of the national health programme.

The Union government shall file the affidavit after collecting and collating data from the States/Union Territories on the implementation of the 2017 guidelines, the Court said.

Senior Advocate Jayna Kothari appeared for the petitioner and submitted that only the Union and States of West Bengal & Uttarakhand have filed counter-affidavits in the matter. However, the short affidavit filed by the Union does not

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