{"id":301638,"date":"2023-02-09T14:55:37","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T09:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/?p=301638"},"modified":"2023-02-09T19:44:47","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T14:14:47","slug":"health-services-deficiencies-pil-meghalaya-high-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/constitutional-law-news\/courts-news\/health-services-deficiencies-pil-meghalaya-high-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghalaya High Court disposes of PILs highlighting state health services lacunae"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
The Meghalaya Court <\/a>disposed of a bunch of Public Interest Litigations (PILs) over deficiencies in health services in the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The matter has been pending since 2016 and the orders passed from time to time, particularly during the Covid lockdown , may have resulted in a marginal improvement in healthcare facilities in the State.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “However, there remains a yawning gap between what is needed and what is available,” the Court remarked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There is no doubt that the executive functions within constraints. There is only so much money available and so many heads to spend on, including healthcare, education, infrastructure and the like. The duty of the court in a public interest litigation of the present kind is to bring the inadequacies to the notice of the executive and, sometimes, suggest solutions that may appear reasonable or easy to achieve. At the end of the day, however, it is for the executive to take a decision in the matter upon obtaining expert opinion which may not always be available to the Court , observed the Division Bench of Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice W. Diengdoh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the course of the recent hearings, the State has bandied figures indicating that infant mortality rate has reduced in the State as has the rate of death at the time of child birth. The State also claims to have added to the number of primary healthcare centers, enhanced the facilities in government hospitals and recently introduced the only cancer treatment facility at a small unit in the Civil Hospital in Shillong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n