The local newspaper reported that healthcare watchdogs in Britain have suggested that patients who have self inflicted diseases from smoking and heavy drinking and obesity would be denied treatment. In a statement the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) said that the healthcare to people would be limited if the cause of the illness would affect the cost of the treatment or the services.

The chairman of NICE said that drinking too much alcohol is not good for the liver as it rots. Transplanting their liver is not a good idea as already there is a shortage of organs. He added that there are no intentions of punishing alcoholic people but there is no point in using a liver for an alcoholic, it can always be used for someone else. There are plans to include this in other organ-donation programs in America as well.

Health officials in a region of the UK say that obese patients will be banned from getting knee replacements done. The director of a public healthcare centre says that obese patients who get their operations done face bigger problems later on. According to the head of the patients association in UK, it is necessary to define what is self-inflicted injury. Can hurting oneself in the playground be called as self-inflicted injury? Moreover, can inherited obesity be also termed as self-inflicted?

He is very disturbed by the debate on self-inflicted injuries, saying that it is not in our morals to judge who should get treatment or not. However, a survey in Britain says that 34 per cent people believe that problems from self-inflicted indulgence should pay for the treatment.