Vaccinate all above 18 years within 3 months, HC tells State govt.
The Hindu
Court also instructs Union Ministry of Health to include COVID drugs in National List of Essential Medicines
Telangana High Court on Tuesday instructed the State government to ensure that all persons above the age of 18 years got inoculated with two doses of COVID vaccine within three months.
A bench of Acting Chief Justice M.S. Ramachandra Rao and Justice T. Vinod Kumar passed this direction while hearing a batch of petitions connected to COVID-19. The bench also directed the government to administer vaccination to all members of the teaching and non-teaching staff of schools within two months.
The bench took serious exception to the Central government’s response to comply with the HC direction to include life saving drugs meant for treating COVID-19 in the National List of Essential Medicines. Instructing the Union Ministry of Health to include such life-saving drugs in the national list of essential medicines by this October-end, the bench said officials of the Ministry would have to face consequences if the order was not complied with.