Covid patients

According to the petition, the government has already fixed the price for the HRTC Test in the government hospitals. Now the petitioner has filed this petition seeking direction to the respondent to fix the price for the HRTC Test in the private hospitals.

The petitioner has submitted that the said impugned notification has directed the Doctors and allied Medical Staff are directed to function in single category, irrespective of differences in their seniority and core medical specialization in the treatment of the COVID Patients.

Tushar Sannu counsel for the IHBAS told the Court that there was no need to increase the bed capacity as at present only eight patients were admitted in COVID facility.

While striking down the IGST imposed on the import of Oxygen Concentrators for personal use as unconstitutional, the Delhi High Court bench of Justices Rajiv Shakdher and Talwant Singh had made a very special observation.

The bench made it clear that authorities must make all effort to make sure that oxygen is available to a patient desperately needing it and that authorities cannot ignore such needs.

Owing to the increase in numbers of COVID patients, there were several persons in dire need of the oxygen concentrators and as a result hundreds of people would que outside the office of the Petitioner, sometimes arriving in ambulances to collect oxygen concentrators

R. Alagumani, Counsel for the petitioner, has referred to some of the bills charged by the private hospitals, which is annexed in the typed set of papers filed along with the petition.

The plea stated that hospitals in Noida and Gurugram have made it mandatory to produce Aadhaar cards with a local Noida or Gurugram address, as the case may be, for being eligible to be admitted to hospitals in these two cities.

Sunil Sethi, Senior Counsel asked for improving the supply of Remdesivir and deficiency of doctors and nursing staff as well as the oxygen to treat Covid patients

Advocate Santosh Kumar Tripathi, appearing for the Delhi government, showed the order to the Court. Following this, the Bench disposed of the suo motu proceedings.