‘Continue rectification work but supply 250 PPE kits to frontline workers’

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court has recently directed a contractor here to supply 250 Personal Protective Equipment (250) to frontline workers in the COVID-19 battle while hearing a plea challenging the sealing of the construction contractor’s property, which was pulled up for unauthorised construction by the South Delhi Municipal Corporation.

A bench of Justice Najmi Waziri allowed the contractor - Chaudhary Ventures Pvt Ltd to carry out rectification work on his property but also directed him to provide protection to medical staff and healthcare workers engaged in fighting

The court also considered protecting the needs of people working in cremation grounds and burial grounds

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“In view of the global pandemic, resulting in the countrywide lockdown, there is constant apprehension of contracting the disease from anyone. It is the need of the hour that those engaged in the frontlines of dealing with the pandemic and the resultant casualties are provided protective gear,” Justice Waziri observed and ordered that Icmr-approved PPE kits be provided to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, State TB Training and Demonstration Centre, Department of Microbiology, National Institute of TB and Respiratory Diseases and Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Hospital here. The court also considered protecting the needs of people working in cremation grounds and burial grounds that are involved in performing the last rites of COVID-19 dead bodies. Justice Waziri ordered that the petitioner must also provide 25 PPE kits to the Lodhi Road Crematorium and Panj Peeran Burial Ground (administered by Delhi Waqf Board) each.