HC appreciates medical infra in five UP districts
PRAYAGRAJ : The Allahabad high court on Thursday perused a report filed by the state government on enhancement of medical facilities in the hospitals of Bahraich, Shravasti, Bijnor, Barabanki and Jaunpur districts and appreciated that ‘some work had been done to improve the medical infrastructure’ in the five districts.
The court directed the state government to file a report on improvement of medical infrastructures in five more districts -- Bhadohi, Ghazipur, Ballia, Deoria and Shamli -- by the next date of hearing on June 7.
The bench comprising justice Siddhartha Varma and justice Ajit Kumar was hearing a suo motu public interest litigation (PIL) on “conditions of quarantine centres and for providing better treatment to corona positives” in Uttar Pradesh.
During the hearing, a report was also submitted by the committee which was required to probe the treatment of justice VK Srivastava, a sitting judge of the Lucknow bench of the high court, who had died due to Covid. While directing to keep the report on record, the court directed that it would be looked into on the next date of hearing.
The court also directed the Centre to come up with a policy regarding vaccination of physically challenged who found it difficult to reach vaccination
centres. The court passed this order after the state government in its affidavit dated May 11 took a stand that it would adopt the guidelines of the central government on vaccination of the physically challenged people. In its order, the court also mentioned that satisfactory work had been done for the capping of fee for carrying out Covid tests. “We also find that satisfactory work has been done for the capping of fee for diagnostics. In respect of RT-PCR tests, the fee ranges between Rs. 500 and 900. For Antigen tests the fee has been fixed for Rs. 200. For TrueNat private testing has been fixed for Rs. 1200.”
Earlier, the high court had criticised the government stating the health services in the state were ‘ Ram Bharose’ (god’s mercy). Commenting on the court observation, state government officials said the improvement in the health infrastructure was primarily because of chief minister’s planned efforts.