The Patient Charter by the Disease Management Association of India (DMAI) and the National Accreditation Board for Hospitals and Healthcare Providers (NABH) states that patients have the following right to care: 

“1. Care

• Patients have a right to receive treatment irrespective of their type of primary and associated illnesses, socio-economic status, age, gender, sexual orientation, religion, caste, cultural preferences, linguistic and geographical origins or political affiliations,
• Right to be heard to his/her satisfaction without the doctor interrupting before completion of narrating their entire problem and concerns.
• Expectation from the doctor to write the prescription legibly and explain to the patient on the details on dosage, dos & don’ts & generic options for the medicines.
• They have to be provided with information and access on whom to contact in case of an emergency.” 

The WMA 2005 Declaration of Lisbon on the Rights of the Patient also provides rights to medical care of good quality to patients as follows: 

“1. Right to medical care of good quality

1. Every person is entitled without discrimination to appropriate medical care.
2. Every patient has the right to be cared for by a physician whom he/she knows to be free to make clinical and ethical judgements without any outside interference.
3. The patient shall always be treated in accordance with his/her best interests. The treatment applied shall be in accordance with generally approved medical principles.
4. Quality assurance should always be a part of health care. Physicians, in particular, should accept responsibility for being guardians of the quality of medical services.
5. In circumstances where a choice must be made between potential patients for a particular treatment that is in limited supply, all such patients are entitled to a fair selection procedure for that treatment. That choice must be based on medical criteria and made without discrimination.
6. The patient has the right to continuity of health care. The physician has an obligation to cooperate in the coordination of medically indicated care with other health care providers treating the patient. The physician may not discontinue treatment of a patient as long as further treatment is medically indicated, without giving the patient reasonable assistance and sufficient opportunity to make alternative arrangements for care.”