End oxygen deficit by May 3, set up buffer stock: Supreme Court tells Centre
Introduce national policy on admissions to hospitals in two weeks The Supreme Court, in an order released late on Sunday, directed the Centre to ensure that the deficit of oxygen to treat COVID-19 patients in the national capital should be rectified on or before the midnight of May 3. A Special Bench led by Justice D.Y. Chandrachud ordered the Centre to act “in collaboration” with States to “prepare a buffer stock of oxygen for emergency purposes and decentralise the location of the emergency stocks”. “The emergency stocks shall be created within the next four days and is to be repl...
Source: thehindu.com