Taking a strong objection to ‘dismal’ state of affairs of Covid-19 patients in the State, Madhya Pradesh High Court, Jabalpur on Monday issued a 19-point guidelines for better treatment and care to the infected patients.
The HC on Monday issued a 49-page order made some strong comments on the situation of Covid-19 patients based on the reports published over scarcity of basic amenities such as hospital beds, Remdesivir and oxygen in major cities including Bhopal, Gwalior, Indore and Jabalpur.
“If this is the scenario in major cities, one can easily imagine the situation in district headquarters, sub divisions and rural areas where the Corona virus is said to have made inroads,” read the order quoting the news items published of late.
Saying that state government could adopt a process to regulate the supply of Remdesivir injections the HCS said it should be
hassle free process and should not be cumbersome to ensure that the requisition from the doctor and supply time should not exceed by an hour.
The court advised the state government for considering enhancement of testing for an early detection of cases of infection and said that the RT-PCR reports should be offered to the patients within 36 hours.
The State Government should take steps to setup more number of Electric Crematoriums, in at-least big cities of the State, and get the Electric Crematoriums repaired, wherever they have gone out of order, said the HC.
The court instructed the state government to ensure that BPL card holders covered under Ayushman yojana and Deendayal Antyodaya Upchar Yojana should not be denied treatment by any of the hospitals.Being a national calamity and country-wide problem, the Central Government should consider stepping in to arrange the Oxygen firstly, by diverting the available stock of Liquid Medical Oxygen from the Steel Plants and other industries located in different parts of the country and secondly, if that is not sufficient, by importing the Oxygen.
The HC made it clear that any government or private hospital should not refuse to treat patients suffering from other serious ailments.
Consider immediately reactivating 262 hospitals Covid Care Centres (CCC), 62 Dedicated Covid Health Centre (DCHC) and 16 Dedicated Covid Hospital (DCH) as per the details furnished to this Court in its order dated May 09, 2020, HC told the State Government.