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Aurangabad Bench calls for detailed chart on patients under treatment, recovered and dead due to the ‘black fungus’
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A nurse treats a Black Fungus infected patient at Mucormycosis ward of government hospital. | Photo Credit: G. Ramakrishna
Aurangabad Bench calls for detailed chart on patients under treatment, recovered and dead due to the ‘black fungus’
The Maharashtra government informed the Aurangabad Bench of the Bombay High Court on Thursday that 124 people have died in the Marathwada region due to mucormycosis, commonly known as black fungus. Special Public Prosecutor D.R. Kale told the Division Bench of Justices Ravindra Ghuge and B.D. Debadwar that there were 1,178 cases of black fungus in the Marathwada region, of which 669 patients were treated, 385 recovered, and 124 died.
: Wednesday, June 2, 2021, 9:43 PM IST
If any casualty happens because of faulty ventilators, Centre will have to take responsibility: Bombay HC
Mumbai: The Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court of Justices Ravindra Ghuge and Bhalachandra Debadwar on Wednesday, while hearing a public interest litigation on faulty ventilators supplied to the Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) at Aurangabad, told the central government that it will be held responsible if the use of such ventilators resulted in any casualty.
The bench recorded this after chief public prosecutor DR Kale submitted a report which stated that a group of 21 experts which included members from the manufacturer Jyoti CNC, Rajkot, supplier Hindustan Latex Limited, Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation, Director General of Health Services AIIMS, Nagpur, had examined the ventilators and had found it faulty on multiple counts.
Bombay HC comes down hard on Centre over faulty ventilators
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Court seeks affidavit with remedial steps taken to rectify issue
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Court seeks affidavit with remedial steps taken to rectify issue
The Aurangabad Bench of the Bombay High Court on Friday expressed displeasure over the Centre’s stand in defending the procurement of ventilators that were dysfunctional.
The Assistant Solicitor General of India, Ajay Talhar, submitted an affidavit filed by G.K. Pillai, Under Secretary of the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, before the Division Bench of Justices Ravindra Ghuge and B.U. Debadwar.
The Centre was asked to file an affidavit after it was brought to the notice of the court that 113 of the 150 ventilators provided to Maharashtra under the PM Cares Fund were faulty.
On Tuesday, when the matter came up before the bench, D R Kale, the chief public prosecutor told the judges about the dysfunctional ventilators provided by the Union government under the PM CARES fund.
As per Kale, a total of 150 ventilators were supplied by the Union to the authorities in Aurangabad district. He submitted that a company - Jyoti CNC has manufactured these 150 ventilators with the model name âDhaman IIIâ.
Of these 150 ventilators, 17 were put to use in the government medical college and hospital Aurangabad, all of which had six flaws in total.
Noting the flaws, the bench noted, Each of these flaws would impact the treatment process of the patients. Two appear to be extremely serious flaws pertaining to âno in-let O2 pressureâ display and âpatient becoming hypoxicâ when on ventilator. These could be life-threatening.