Nehru Stadium is Remdesivir sales point

Court says it is a war-like situation in which treatment has to be afforded to all in need of it

The State government on Thursday informed the Madras High Court of its decision to shift the Remdesivir sales counters from the Kilpauk Medical College to the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium at Periamet to manage the crowd better. The court was also told that more counters would be opened at the stadium so that the attenders of patients at private hospitals need not wait in queues for long. Advocate-General R. Shunmugasundaram made the submission before the first Division Bench of Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy at the hearing of a suo motu PIL petition taken up by the court to monitor the fight against COVID-19. After having a word with Health Secretary J. Radhakrishnan, the Advocate-General said the counters would be shifted to the stadium as early as possible.