New Delhi: While responding to a Right to Information query, the New India Assurance Company has revealed that families of only 428 doctors out of 1988 healthcare workers who had died due to COVID-19,.
The tragedy laid bare the massive neglect of healthcare and education in India's most populous state. Many families still struggle to comprehend their loss.
The Supreme Court today directed the Centre to file a detailed application on the issue of fake claims and also on limiting the time for filing compensation claims.
The Supreme Court on Monday warned against the misuse of its order to get ex-gratia compensation for COVID-19 death on the basis of fake medical certificate and observed that it would order an independent probe to catch those who have done so.
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