According to the NABH/DMAI Patients’ Charter, every patient has the right to receive treatment irrespective of his/her type of primary and associated illnesses. Patients have the right to personal dignity and to receive care without any form of stigma and discrimination.

For instance, if a patient who is HIV-positive comes to a doctor for consultation for some illness, the doctor must not deny him/her treatment based on the fact that he/she is HIV-positive. It is the doctor’s duty to treat the patient.