The Supreme Court on Wednesday passed its first-ever order allowing passive euthanasia for Ghaziabad man Harish Rana, who has been in a permanent vegetative state for nearly 13 years. His family had sought permission to withdraw life-sustaining medical support and allow passive euthanasia.
Harish Rana suffered head injuries after falling from the fourth floor of a building in 2013 and has been in a coma for over a decade. He has been in a permanent vegetative state with 100 per cent disability and quadriplegia, requiring continuous medical assistance for breathing, feeding, and daily care.
Earlier in the proceedings, the apex court had directed the constitution of a Primary Medical Board to evaluate whether the life-sustaining treatment could be withdrawn, in line with the Supreme Court’s rulings governing passive euthanasia. A team of medical experts that visited Rana at his residence reported that he was lying in bed with a tracheostomy tube for respiration and a gastrostomy tube for feeding, and that the “chances of his recovery from this state is negligible”.
Subsequently, the top court also directed the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, to constitute a Secondary Medical Board to independently examine his condition.
Passive euthanasia is the intentional act of letting a patient die by withholding or withdrawing life support or the treatment necessary to keep him alive.
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