The plea stated that hospitals in Noida and Gurgaon have made it mandatory to produce Aadhaar cards with a local Noida or Gurgaon address, as the case may be, for being eligible to be admitted to the hospitals situated there.
The Supreme Court administration on Thursday conveyed its ‘in-principle’ concurrence to the initiative of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) for setting up a temporary in-patient facility for Covid patients in the Supreme Court Complex.
Further, it is submitted that when the beds under Covid-19 category are seen, the same is also misleading in as much as a large number of these beds are not oxygenated.
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday issued a Contempt notice to the official suppliers of the Delhi government supplying oxygen to various hospitals in the national capital, in the issue of hospitals not getting adequate oxygen for the patients suffering from Covid-19.
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 petition said it was the duty of the government and its authorities to make sure that each and every hospital of the country dealing with Covid cases gets medicines at the rate determined by the government.
The Supreme Court bench of Justice Ashok Bhushan, Justice R Subhash Reddy and Justice M.R. Shah orders such posters can be affixed by states only when competent authorities under the DMA issues specific directions.
The bench comprising Justices Ashok Bhushan, R Subhash Reddy, and MR Shah was hearing suo-motu case for Proper treatment of COVID 19 Patients and dignified handling of dead bodies in the hospitals.
Justice Bhushan asked Solicitor General Tushar Mehta whether the government can issue a state-wise advisory that such acts should not be followed by the states, to which Mehta said an advisory of the Central government has already been issued to the states.