There will be a welcome addition to the health facilities of the national capital when the Indira Gandhi Super Speciality Hospital gets operational by today, the Delhi government told Delhi High Court on Friday.
Moreover, the district magistrates will issue a pass having the date, time and address of the dealer/depot from where the oxygen cylinder can be issued/exchanged.
The Division Bench of Justices Vipin Sanghi and Rekha Palli, on April 27, had asked the Delhi government to collect the information of the total deaths due to shortage of oxygen in the hospitals across the national capital.
The Delhi High Court has directed the Delhi Government to frame a scheme incorporating a structured response for the ‘home-based worker’, ‘self-employed worker’ and ‘unorganised worker’, as defined under The Unorganised Workers’ Social Security Act, 2008, within two weeks.
The government’s failure to anticipate the nationwide demand for oxygen and the aforesaid notification that is just limited to the man of means is abhorrent at par when the entire world is witnessing the ongoing crisis of this Country.
The Division Bench of Chief Justice D. N. Patel and Justice Jasmeet Singh passed this order while hearing a PIL filed by Shivleen Pasricha, through Advocate Amresh Anand.
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.
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday reacted angrily to a news item, which had quoted a Delhi government notification, saying that 100 rooms of the Ashoka Hotel in Chanakyapuri would be converted into Covid care, exclusively for Justices and other Judicial Officers.