The PIL had sought a direction to the Central and state governments for door-to-door vaccination for citizens above 75 years of age, people with disabilities, and the immobile.
The Bombay High Court asked the BMC if senior citizens and those with disabilities could be inoculated and that it would grant permission even though the centre hadn’t given the nod for it.
Acccording to the statetement of the petitioner, the drug Remdesivir is used in the treatment of COVID-19 patients that reduces the need for oxygen and the longer hospitalization of the patients.
The division bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Girish S Kulkarni passed this order while hearing a PIL filed by Neelima Sadanand Vartak.
A bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice G.S. Kulkarni was referring to a hashtag campaign #ArrestRhea run by the channel, following the death of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput.
The Bombay High Court has said that if a COVID-19 patient dies due to negligence on the part of medical facilities in a state or civic-run hospital, then his/her family members would be entitled for compensation.
The Bombay High Court Bench of the Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice KK Tated has said, “to urge the Bench to direct the State to provide for treatment of a patient free of cost, in these circumstances, appears to us to be preposterous.”
Senior Lawyers from Maharashtra today has addressed a letter to the Chief Justice of Bombay High Court, Dipankar Datta on normal functioning of Court on account of backlog of cases during COVID-19 pandemic.