Industries can wait for oxygen, not Covid-19 patients: Delhi High Court
NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court Tuesday said sufficient oxygen was not being supplied to COVID-19 patients in the national capital and asked the Centre if it can be diverted from industries which can wait for now. “Industries can wait. Patients cannot. Human lives are at stake,” a bench of Justices Vipin Sanghi and Rekha […]
Supreme Court asks if private hospitals ready to charge COVID-19 patients at Ayushman Bharat rate
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court Friday asked private hospitals whether they are ready to provide treatment to COVID-19 infected patients at the charges prescribed under the government’s Ayushman Bharat Scheme. The ‘Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana’ is aimed at providing health cover to poor and vulnerable persons in the country. A bench headed […]
Identify private hospitals to treat COVID-19 patients for free or at nominal cost: Supreme Court to Centre
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court Wednesday asked the Central government to identify private hospitals where COVID-19 infected patients could get treatment for free or at a nominal cost. A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde, hearing the matter via video-conferencing, observed that there are private hospitals which have been given land either free […]