Unfortunately, our legislation does not prevent effectively alluring advertisements for tobacco and alcoholic drinks without any warning about their injurious effects on health. We have also initiated legislation to control environmental pollution and the Courts are stepping in to limit this rapidly spreading danger to the health of the community. On the national and global level enormous new dangers to the health of humanity have arisen out of the high and artificial styles of affluent living, besides those arising from poverty and lack of social and economic development. Apart from advance in medical science new laws as well as education and creation of awareness among people are required to fight this menace to human health and life. Narcotic drugs trafficking is another pervasive danger to health that has been growing in alarming proportions.
Medical technology is to-day perfecting the transplantation of human and animal organs.
This is a development promising unprecedented benefits to humankind, but it is also replete with opportunities for abuse. Laws have to be made nationally and globally against the abuses of this kind of scientific advance. I am glad to say that the Transplantation of Human Organs Act in India provides for restrictions on removal of transplantations of human organs and commercial dealings in them for the sake of economic profits. Pre-natal diagnosis developed by medical science and technology is another development open to abuse against the interests, the status and the dignity of women, and against the sanity of human society. The heartless discrimination and the killing of the female child even before birth is the main abuse to which the new discovery is put, especially in a society dominated by male values.