Gujarat High Court takes suo motu cognisance of COVID-19 upsurge in State
The Hindu
The court cites media reports of the COVID crisis in hospitals and lists matter for urgent hearing on Monday morning
Citing media reports of shortage of beds, oxygen supply, testing facility and medicines as the COVID-19 pandemic grips the State with soaring cases and deaths, the Gujarat High Court on Sunday took suo motu cognisance of the worsening situation and listed the matter for urgent hearing on Monday morning. Chief Justice Vikram Nath in his oral order on Sunday said,“The newspapers, news channels are flooded with the harrowing tales, unfortunate and unimaginable difficulties, unmanageable conditions of the infrastructure, the shortfall and the deficit of not only testing, availability of beds, ICU, but also supply of oxygen and the basic medicines like Remdesivir, etc.” “Had it been stray news here and there, I could have ignored it but the volume of reports in the leading newspapers having nation-wide circulation cannot be ignored. It is the time that the Court must intervene,” he noted, listing the matter for urgent hearing in a sou motu public interest litigation on Monday morning.
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