NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION, INDIA viii. To publicize the Charter, the Commission may upload the Charter of Patients’ Rights on NHRC website ix. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare should publicize the DOs and DON’Ts by putting it up on their website and spreading awareness through audio-visual-print mediums for wider publicity and effective implementation of the Charter of Patients’ Rights x. Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to ensure that the display of Charter of Patients’ Rights in all government hospitals is made mandatory. xi. Awareness mechanism for sensitizing healthcare providers about Charter of Patients’ Rights: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to ensure inclusion of Charter of Patients’ Rights in the training programmes for health professionals. xii. Inclusion of all the patients’ rights in Ministry’s DOs and DON’Ts as delineated in the NHRC’s Charter of Patients’ Rights: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare should ensure that rights envisaged in the Charter of Patients’ Rights are not excluded in the Ministry’s DOs and DON’Ts. For instance, right to emergency medical care, right to choose source for obtaining medicines or tests, right to proper referral and transfer free from perverse commercial influences, right to protection for patients involved in clinical trials are excluded in the DOs and DON’Ts 6.25 The above recommendations were sent to the respective stakeholders for their consideration and suitable action. Deliberations during the meeting of the Core Group on Health and Mental Health held on 26th November 2019 at NHRC ANNUAL REPORT 2019-20 97