Mahima
The division bench of Karnataka High Court comprising of Chief Justice Abhay Oka and Justice Aravind Kumar passed an array of directions for proper Covid-19 management.
- Failure to provide test results in a reasonable time is creating very serious issues. We direct State to take action against those labs that don’t give RT-PCR tests results in 24 hours.
- Even non-Covid critically ill patients and pregnant woman are not to be admitted in hospitals until they produce negative RT-PCR reports.
- State to consider having separate queues for pregnant woman and senior citizens for taking covid tests in labs.
- State to consider a policy to ensure that in asymptomatic cases, negative RT-PCR test not to be made compulsory.
- State to give real-time updates of quantities of Remdesivir in all shops.
- State to appoint officers to eradicate black marketing of Remdesivir.
- State to consider whether it can directly buy the drug from manufacturers or dealers and supply to hospitals.
- State to immediately have some kind of distribution system for oxygen where State itself can provide to the hospitals.
- State has to step in and provide additional facilities for crematoriums as only seven out of thirteen crematoriums are put to use.
- State should also step in for Christian community as there in not enough place to bury bodies.
- Court extends the interim orders of bail and pre-arrest until the end of next month.