Healthcare and compliance to rules: Examining dalit literature and life

Abstract

The present paper, titled, “Healthcare and Compliance to Rules: Examining Dalit Literature and Life” seeks to interweave the intricacies of healthcare as impacted by contraventions of government rules. The paper persists to examine the influence of violations of rules on the health of Dalits and uneducated people. The paper examines the use of fake advertisements by witch doctors as a decoy to lure patients to seek their treatment. Enthralled by fake advertisements of magic remedies many Dalits do not seek medical attention healthcare facilities. This defeats the purpose of the government behind establishing certain rules and acts. The paper further calls for a combined struggle against such contraventions of rules so that better and more reliable healthcare services could be rendered.