High Courts Must Avoid Passing Impossible Covid Orders: Supreme Court High Courts Must Avoid Passing Impossible Covid Orders: Supreme Court The Supreme Court today said that the Allahabad High Court s Ram bharose comment on UP s medical system must be treated as advice.
The Supreme Court today said it cannot pass sweeping orders for all high courts.
New Delhi:
The Supreme Court today said that given the national and transnational ramification of Covid-related cases, High Courts must avoid passing orders that are impossible to implement.
It stayed an Allahabad High Court order in a suo motu case in which the court said that, within four months, all nursing home beds in Uttar Pradesh must have oxygen facility. The High Court had also directed the Uttar Pradesh government to ensure that within a month every UP village had two ambulances with ICU facility.
Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath had in 2017 promised “Ram Rajya”, or the equivalent of an ideal state. Three years on, Allahabad High Court has observed that the healthcare system in the smaller cities and villages of the state was “Ram bharose”, or at God’s mercy.
The bench of Justices Siddharth Varma and Ajit Kumar made the observation on Monday while going through a report submitted by the government on doctors at the state-run LLRM Medical College in Meerut failing to identify a deceased Covid patient and disposing of the body as that of an unidentified person.
The court said: “If this is the state of affairs of treatment at a medical college in a city like Meerut, then the entire medical system of the state pertaining to smaller cities and villages can only be taken to be like the famous Hindi saying: ‘Ram bharose’.”
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Patients left at God’s mercy, says bench, flags callous attitude of doctors, paramedical staff
The entire medical system of Uttar Pradesh in smaller cities and villages is ‘Ram Bharose’ (at God’s mercy), the Allahabad High Court said on Monday as it took note of a case of egregious medical negligence at a goverment hospital in Meerut.
The case involved the death of a person in a top government hospital and the failure of the doctors to identify him later, leading to the disposal of the body. A probe was conducted over the ‘missing’ person by a three-member committee.
Allahabad High Court has rapped the Yogi Adityanath government for hiding key facts about Covid treatment facilities and the number of deaths, and failing to comply with earlier orders on furnishing hospitals with life-saving equipment and drugs.
“Neither required information as mandated by our order has been given nor, otherwise, compliance has been made (with) our various directions,” the bench of Justices Siddharth Varma and Ajit Kumar observed on Tuesday, reacting to an affidavit filed by Uttar Pradesh home secretary Badugu Deva Paulson.
The observations, uploaded on the court website on Wednesday, came during the hearing of a public interest plea. Some of the court’s observations: