CONNECTIVITY OF MEDICINES AS A RIGHT TO HEALTH: WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO INDIAN LEGAL FRAMEWORK

Abstract

Patent protection and its relation to the accessibility of medicines both play the most vital role in the head of intellectual property in the modern world. A passages agreement has made it obligatory for all member states to give patent protection for pharmaceutical products and processes as well. The product patent was introduced in the Indian pharmaceutical governance as a transnational healthcare tragedy, with millions suffering encyclopedically from life- changing   conditions, as a large number of them were serving from the low- cost medicine manufacturing sector. This paper involves analyses of the being situation current in India with respect to access to drug. It also deals with the aspect of access to drug as a mortal right that's ‘available, affordable, and respectable. This paper also explores the present Indian legal framework guarding the right to health by enabling access to medicines. Incipiently, it elaborates on the challenges with respect to the access to drugs in India and also adds some suggestions to address the issue.