{"id":249589,"date":"2022-01-25T19:46:01","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T14:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/?p=249589"},"modified":"2022-01-25T20:04:29","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T14:34:29","slug":"supreme-court-asks-centre-to-consider-dcpcr-views-on-covid-jab-for-lactating-mothers-and-pregnant-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/constitutional-law-news\/supreme-court-news\/supreme-court-asks-centre-to-consider-dcpcr-views-on-covid-jab-for-lactating-mothers-and-pregnant-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court asks Centre to consider DCPCR views on Covid jab for lactating mothers and pregnant women"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
The Supreme Court<\/a> on Tuesday asked the Centre to take a considered view of the petitioner’s concerns on Covid-19 vaccination for pregnant women and lactating mothers while disposing it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The bench of Justice D.Y. Chandrachud and Justice Sanjiv Khanna said they could highlight the concerns but were not inclined to give a direction to the Government since they were not domain experts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The petition filed by the Delhi Commission for the Protection of Child Rights (DCPCR) had stated that although the Central Government had put out guidelines, the petitioner wanted some concerns addressed by the Centre to take into account for pregnant women and lactating mothers vis-a-vis Covid vaccination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The bench said in its order: “The specific reliefs which have been sought for the need to provide effective access to vaccination to pregnant women and lactating mothers. These reliefs can broadly be summarised as follows: <\/p>\n\n\n\n 1) Categorization of these group of women as high risk of vulnerability to give priority; <\/p>\n\n\n\n 2) Their inclusion in vaccine drive setting up of a task force to operationalise their tracking of post-vaccine health effects; <\/p>\n\n\n\n 3) Developing educational material and SOPs for women belonging to this group to understand the effect of vaccine and ensure informed consent is taken; <\/p>\n\n\n\n 4) Setting up separate vaccine centre to protect this class from any untoward infection; <\/p>\n\n\n\n 5) Engaging Asha and Anganwadi workers for vaccination for particularly women belonging to lower socio-economic background; and <\/p>\n\n\n\n 6) Providing a method to classify women in CoWin app so as to given priority in vaccination slot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The bench noted that the Centre’s preliminary affidavit dated October 1, 2021 had detailed steps on the constitution of national technical advisory group on immunisation and for vaccine administration, steps taken for supporting vaccination of pregnant and lactating women, to find the adverse effects of vaccination and support provided through vaccination centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n