Health Ministry has released draft guidelines for withholding life support (or passive euthanasia) in terminally ill patients. The guidelines allow withdrawal of ventilation support, dialysis, ECMO, etc when a patient is declared brain dead, is unlikely to benefit from advanced intervention and if she/he had documented informed refusal of care. Active euthanasia is illegal, the guidelines said.
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Sakshita Khosla /
01:08 pm on
29 Sep