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| DB imposes costs for not filling counter affidavit | | PIL seeking improvement of infrastructural facilities of GMC & associated hospitals | |
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 7: Sumit Nayyar a practicing lawyer has filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking direction to respondents to improve the existing infrastructural facilities of Government Medical College and associated Hospitals in Jammu and Kashmir and to take effective measures as expeditiously as possible.
A Division Bench of J&K High Court Jammu Wing comprising Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice Rajesh Bindal after hearing petitioner in person and AAG Raman Sharma for the Health Department, took serious note for not filling counter affidavit.
DB observed that given the importance of the public interest raised in this petition, this Court grants one final opportunity to the respondents to file their counter affidavit within four weeks subject to payment of cost of ₹5,000/- with the Advocate’s Welfare Fund.
DB further directed that in case this order is not complied with, the Secretary, Department of Health & Medical Education, Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir shall remain personally present in court on the next date of hearing.
The petitioner has sought direction to respondents to increase the bed-strength in the Government Medical College, Jammu and also SMGS Hospital, Shalamar Road, Jammu and also replace all the totally damaged existing toilet seats with English seats in the washrooms/bathrooms of GMC Hospitals Jammu and SMGS Hospital Shalamar Road, Jammu so that the female patients admitted for delivery of their babies do not face any kind inconvenience while using toilets in the SMGS Hospital, Jammu.
In the PIL it has also been submitted that there are due shortages of medicines in the emergencies drugs like Dopamine, paracetamol etc. In the emergency, the patients have purchased the basic medicines or injections from the market and the hospital authorities have not taken any step for providing the basic medicines to the patients. |
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