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Allahabad High Court has rapped the Yogi Adityanath government for hiding key facts about Covid treatment facilities and the number of deaths, and failing to comply with earlier orders on furnishing hospitals with life-saving equipment and drugs. “Neither required information as mandated by our order has been given nor, otherwise, compliance has been made (with) our various directions,” the bench of Justices Siddharth Varma and Ajit Kumar observed on Tuesday, reacting to an affidavit filed ...

HC relief for hospital booked for ‘false’ oxygen shortage alarm Updated: Updated: May 12, 2021 15:28 IST Hospital submits in court that in the wake of FIR lodged against it, it was not able to treat COVID-19 patients Share Article AAA Hospital submits in court that in the wake of FIR lodged against it, it was not able to treat COVID-19 patients A private hospital in Lucknow, which was booked on the charge of issuing a false alarm for oxygen shortage, has been granted interim protection from...

Bench asks State govt. to form three-member pandemic public grievance committee in all districts The Allahabad High Court has said the compensation provided to kin of polling officers who died on duty during the panchayat polls due to the “deliberate act on the part of the State and the State Election Commission to force them to perform duties in the absence of RTPCR support” should be at least ₹1 crore. The State government had recently told the court that it would provide a compensatio...

Allahabad High Court has asked the Uttar Pradesh government to shorten the process of procurement of Covid vaccines from international producers, suggesting that the state deal directly with foreign companies instead of inviting tenders. “We are of the opinion that tender is a long-drawn process and if we run late in vaccinating a large portion of the population of the state, we may lose the real desired result of vaccination as the virus may mutate, which may neutralise the vaccines also,”...

The Allahabad High Court on Friday directed the Uttar Pradesh government to explain how it was dealing with the surge in COVID-19 cases in rural and sub-urban areas, and smaller cities of the state. A two-judge bench, comprising justices Siddharth Verma and Ajit Kumar, issued the direction while while hearing a petition that claimed the state governments focus in the recent past has been only on dealing with the COVID-19 situation in major cities. The smaller districts and cities got unfortu...

‘Unless every individual is protected, no one is safe’ The Allahabad High Court on Friday directed the Uttar Pradesh government to apprise it on how it proposed to “expedite” the purchase of vaccines from global markets, and asked it to find ways and means to ensure the immediate procurement of vaccines so that all citizens in the State could get vaccinated with complete doses within 3-4 months. The court’s instructions came after the State government’s counsel submitted before th...

Allahabad High Court has exposed the Uttar Pradesh administration’s claims about the reliability of its Covid information system by demonstrating a mismatch between the government helpline and portal on the availability of hospital beds. It has also described as “a criminal act and not less than a genocide” the state authorities’ failure to supply adequate oxygen to hospitals, shredding chief minister Yogi Adityanath’s steadfast denial of any oxygen crisis. During a virtual hearing on...

Elections are over, import oxygen from Pakistan and stop the ‘genocide’ May 6, 2021, 8:26 PM IST I P Singh is Assistant Editor at The Times of India, Jalandhar. He covers news in Jalandhar, Kapurthala and Nawanshahr districts, and writes on politics, environmental issues, heritage preservation and contemporary trends. He specializes in deciphering religio-political peculiarities and complexities of Punjab. LESS... MORE Deaths due to oxygen shortage are no less than genoci...

Sharda Hospital has a total of 720 beds, of which 80 are reserved for providing intensive care while the remaining 110 have dedicated oxygen supply. GREATER NOIDA: In some relief for the residents, more oxygen beds are expected to get ready within a week in the district as hospitals are expected to expand the capacity of generating more oxygen for patients. Greater Noida-based Sharda medical college is in the process of adding another oxygen plant with a capacity to store 21 kilolitre of oxyge...

COVID-19 Patients Dying Due to Oxygen Shortage Is Not Less Than a Genocide: Allahabad HC The remarks were made based on several news items and posts doing the rounds on social media regarding the death of COVID-19 patients due to lack of oxygen in Lucknow and Meerut districts. Relatives carry a COVID-19 patient on oxygen support for treatment at Swaroop Rani Nehru Hospital, amid the ongoing spike in COVID-19 cases, in Prayagraj, Sunday, May 2, 2021. Photo: PTI Law3 hours ago New Delhi: Using ve...