Specify Steps To Be Taken To Combat COVID Surge In Case It Affects Kids: Jharkhand High Court To Govt

The Bench of Chief Justice Dr. Ravi Ranjan and Justice Sujit Narayan Prasad also asked the State to inform the Court about the awareness program in the rural/remote areas of the State for making people mentally prepared for vaccination.

The Bench also directed the State Government is directed to:

"Apprise the Court as to what arrangement has been made for such patients, who have been referred from other districts for treatment to another district and after recovery from treatment how they are being sent to their native place amidst restriction imposed by the State Government for movement from one district to another."

Further, the Court also asked the State Government as to the arrangement made for the juveniles who are in remand homes in order to combat with the suffering from Covid -19 as also the steps taken by the State Government to combat the situation of Covid-19 amongst the prisoners of different prisons across the State.

Other directions passed by the High Court:

• The State Government shall apprise the progress pertaining to Kotwali P.S. Case No. 107 of 2021 and other criminal cases instituted for black-marketing of medicines and other equipment.
• The Secretary, Department of Health, Medical Education and Family Welfare, Govt. of Jharkhand shall apprise this Court with respect to further steps taken after the appointment of Nodal Officer under the leadership of Deputy Commissioner of each and every district of the State to look after the management of Sadar Hospital and other hospitals of the districts as to how the monitoring system would be made more effective to combat the situation of Covid-19.
• So far as issue pertaining to installation of oxygen storage tank in different Sadar Hospital in different district of the State is concerned, the Department of Health shall apprise this Court about the progress on the issue by the next date of hearing.
• The State Government through the Department of Health, Medical Education and Family Welfare, Govt. of Jharkhand will also apprise as to whether any communication regarding the non-working condition of 55 Ventilators, which have been sent under PM Cares Fund, has been made to the competent authority of the Central Government or not.
• So far as missing of 200 Oxygen cylinders from Medical College at Hazaribagh is concerned, the State Government shall apprise this Court as to what action has been taken and whether the aforesaid cylinders have been recovered as yet or not?

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