According to the petition, the government has already fixed the price for the HRTC Test in the government hospitals. Now the petitioner has filed this petition seeking direction to the respondent to fix the price for the HRTC Test in the private hospitals.
The Amendment Act has a provision of asking for a mandatory prior opinion of the Lieutenant Governor before taking any executive action is violative of Article 14 and arbitrary in nature.
The Delhi High Court bench of Justices Vipin Sanghi and Rekha Palli on Wednesday made it clear that the Covid aid that has come in from private parties and from abroad should be distributed on time and judiciously. The bench also asked for a compliance report from the Centre on May 22.
Owing to the increase in numbers of COVID patients, there were several persons in dire need of the oxygen concentrators and as a result hundreds of people would que outside the office of the Petitioner, sometimes arriving in ambulances to collect oxygen concentrators
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 Chief Justice D. N. Patel and Justice Jasmeet Singh passed this order while hearing a PIL filed by Shivleen Pasricha, through Advocate Amresh Anand.
In such a situation, instead of saying that beds without oxygen are useless, the government should consider taking the help of the Army in supplying oxygen to the patients,” he added
Senior Advocate Geeta Luthra, appearing for the petitioner before the High Court, had submitted, “The Government of NCT of Delhi had issued a circular/order dated 9th July, 2020 restricting grant of study leave, but despite that, 11 doctors were permitted to go on study leave.