The Jammu and Kashmir High Court disposed of a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking a direction to the respondents to provide the best medical facilities to border firing victims and to take effective measures as expeditiously as possible.
The PIL filed by one Dharminder Paul Singh further seeks to create adequate preventive and treatment infrastructure and facilities for patients.
The status report filed by the Director, Health Services Jammu, contended that all the requirements of the control room viz. Staff/Medicines/Drivers and Ambulances are put at the disposal of the control room officer who is also responsible for giving information back to the Director, Health Services Jammu and Administrative Department. Further a 24X7 medical camp is established at the relief camps with an adequate amount of Medicines and Staff and ambulances with drivers. It is further averred that the civilians trapped in the firing range are evacuated by the Army/BSF. Civil ambulances are also allowed to go inside the firing range and ambulances are stationed at relief camps and nearest health centres to meet any emergency at any given point of time.
It is further averred that in case of heavy to very heavy shelling extra deployment of additional ambulances, Doctors, Medicines is done by the Director, Health Services at any given time. Concerned CMO/BMO/Superintendent and Incharge Medical Officers are given free hand to meet the emergency in case of non availability of Medicines to procure it from the open market immediately.
DHS/CMOs/Superintendents/Incharge Medical Officers are in constant touch with the civil and Military Paramedics forces. City Hospitals like Govt. Hospital, Gandhi Nagar, Govt. Hospital, Sarwal, Rajiv Gandhi Hospital are put on alert to meet any emergency.
In view of the status report filed by the Director, Health Services Jammu, the Division Bench of Chief Justice (Acting) Tashi Rabstan and Justice Moksha Khajuria Kazmi noted that there is no requirement of any further direction since the Administration has already taken care of all the grievances as sought by the petitioner through this Public Interest Litigation. Accordingly, the Public Interest Litigation is disposed of by the High Court.
Further the Court granted liberty to the petitioner to approach the concerned Deputy Commissioner by filing representation in case of any deficiency on the part of the respondents, who shall look into the matter and take necessary action, accordingly.