New Delhi: Human Rights Watch and Pallium India wrote a petition to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, seeking improved availability of pain relief medicines, and to press parliament to approve changes to the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.
The act makes stringent provisions for the control and regulation of operations relating to narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances.
The petition said the amendment bill, which would still include the restrictions to prevent abuse of medicines like morphine, intends to ensure its easy availability to patients suffering from unbearable pain.
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"The government has supported the NDPS Amendment Bill. Yet it is essential that the amendment gets your support now to take it forward to a vote in the winter session of parliament," said the petition to the prime minister.
"The passage of the NDPS Amendment Bill will lead to improved access to pain relief medicines and help ease the suffering of millions of patients and their families in India, thereby improving their quality of life," it said.
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