BREAKING : SC Issues Directions For Ensuring PPEs, Police Protection To Health Workers Treating COVID-19 [Read Order]
4 years, 9 months ago

BREAKING : SC Issues Directions For Ensuring PPEs, Police Protection To Health Workers Treating COVID-19 [Read Order]

Live Law  

In a significant order, the Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to ensure the availability of appropriate Personal Protective Equipments to health workers treating COVID-19 patients in India.A bench comprising Justices Ashok Bhushan and S Ravindra Bhat ordered :"The respondents as per guidelines dated 24.03.2020 of the Ministry of Health. In a significant order, the Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to ensure the availability of appropriate Personal Protective Equipments to health workers treating COVID-19 patients in India. A bench comprising Justices Ashok Bhushan and S Ravindra Bhat ordered : "The respondents as per guidelines dated 24.03.2020 of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare are directed to ensure availability of appropriate Personal Protective Equipments, including sterile medical/Nitrile gloves, starch apparels, medical masks, goggles, face shield, respirators, shoe covers, head covers and coveralls/gowns to all Health Workers including Doctors, Nurses, Ward Boys, other medical and paramedical professionals actively attending to, and treating patients suffering from COVID-19 in India, in Metro cities, Tier-2 and Tier-3 cities". IMPORTANT UPDATE : SC Directs Centre @MoHFW_INDIA to ensure availability of #PPEs, Gloves, Masks, Respirators, and other necessary protective apparels and shields to health workers treating COVID-19 patients in India.

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Attack On Covid Warriors: Kerala High Court Directs Police To Pull Up Its Socks
3 years, 3 months ago

Attack On Covid Warriors: Kerala High Court Directs Police To Pull Up Its Socks

Live Law  

In the wake of a recent incident where a nursing assistant was attacked on her way back from Covid duty, the Kerala High Court on Wednesday instructed the police to perk up and stay more alert to avoid such episodes in the future.A Division Bench comprising Justice Devan Ramachandran and Justice Kauser Edappagath expressed its distress with the incident and …

No Toilet Breaks, No Family Time: Grim Photo of Exhausted Nurse in PPE Goes Viral as Covid-19 Spikes
3 years, 8 months ago

No Toilet Breaks, No Family Time: Grim Photo of Exhausted Nurse in PPE Goes Viral as Covid-19 Spikes

News 18  

The medical community around the world has borne the stress of the coronavirus pandemic, emerging as Covid warriors and risking their own lives to keep others safe. In a revealing post, a mental health professional who contracted Covid-19 and was recuperating in a hospital, highlighted the hardships faced by doctors and nurses dealing with Covid-19 pandemic in India, even as …

Coronavirus Outbreak Updates: Confirmed cases in Bihar reach 6,475, toll rises to 36; senior police officer tests positive in Uttar Pradesh
4 years, 6 months ago

Coronavirus Outbreak Updates: Confirmed cases in Bihar reach 6,475, toll rises to 36; senior police officer tests positive in Uttar Pradesh

Firstpost  

6:53 PM Whatsapp Facebook Twitter Coronavirus Outbreak in India Latest Update Plea in SC raises concern over safety of health care workers A plea has been filed in the Supreme Court raising concern over the safety of healthcare workers, including nurses and paramedical staffs, and has sought directions to authorities to provide proper protection kits to those working in COVID-19 …

Healthcare workers’ responsibility to protect themselves from covid, govt to SC
4 years, 7 months ago

Healthcare workers’ responsibility to protect themselves from covid, govt to SC

Live Mint  

NEW DELHI: It is the responsibility of healthcare workers’ to protect themselves from covid-19 infection, the health ministry said in the Supreme Court in a reply to a plea seeking accommodation separate residential facility near hospitals for the frontline workers. “While the Hospital Infection Control Committee in the health facility is responsible for implementing the Infection Prevention and Control activities …

Nurses seek better facilities, equipment
4 years, 7 months ago

Nurses seek better facilities, equipment

The Hindu  

A live dashboard indicating healthcare professionals infected with SARS-CoV-2, hygienic and clean quarantine centres, separate COVID-19 wards and centres for infected healthcare workers, nutritious meals and proper treatment are some of the demands made by activists and nurses’ associations. The activists have demanded complete personal protective equipment for all healthcare workers, irrespective of whether they are working in COVID-19 wards, …

COVID-19 in Karnataka: Shortage of PPE kits, unequal distribution of resources put health workers in line of fire
4 years, 7 months ago

COVID-19 in Karnataka: Shortage of PPE kits, unequal distribution of resources put health workers in line of fire

Firstpost  

Doctors at St John’s Medical College and Hospital is the lack of safety gear– PPE kits, the fear of running out of N95 masks and gloves and the disproportionate distribution of the kits, masks and gloves by the government. “A lack of hygiene would transmit fomites from COVID-19 confirmed patient to a suspect,” Manu Varma MK said. A charitable tertiary …

[COVID-19] SC Seeks Centre's Response On Plea For Suitable Quarantine Facilities For Frontline Medical Workers [Read Order]
4 years, 7 months ago

[COVID-19] SC Seeks Centre's Response On Plea For Suitable Quarantine Facilities For Frontline Medical Workers [Read Order]

Live Law  

The Supreme Court on Friday sought instructions from the Centre on the issue of access to suitable accomodation & quarantine facilities for medical workers involved in treating COVID19 patients.A bench of Justices L. Nageswara Rao, Sanjay Kishan Kaul & BR Gavai took up the plea pertaining to welfare of medical personnel, especially "doctors, nursing staff, hospital staff,. The Supreme Court …

At Hyderabad COVID-19 hospital, off-roll cleaners, security guards work without protective equipment as admin shifts blame to contractors
4 years, 8 months ago

At Hyderabad COVID-19 hospital, off-roll cleaners, security guards work without protective equipment as admin shifts blame to contractors

Firstpost  

At a state government-run hospital in Hyderabad, many non-clinical hospital staffers say they are woefully unprotected. A junior doctor in the hospital noted that sanitation workers are not given adequate protection “at all” and said he is fearful for the support staff, who face the same risks as higher-paid clinical staffers. The staff members fell into three groups: those dealing …

‘Use of War Metaphors for COVID-19 Spreads Fear’: Psychiatrist
4 years, 8 months ago

‘Use of War Metaphors for COVID-19 Spreads Fear’: Psychiatrist

The Quint  

There are two angles here: One, war metaphors used to describe the whole response to the pandemic ; two, specifically, in context of healthcare workers, seen as “Corona Warriors” and “Corona Fighters” on the frontline. Let us focus on the second point: Labelling healthcare workers as “warriors” is inappropriate because nobody who chose to become a healthcare worker wanted to …

Protection for protectors: The Hindu Editorial on safety of healthcare workers
4 years, 8 months ago

Protection for protectors: The Hindu Editorial on safety of healthcare workers

The Hindu  

Since the first case of novel coronavirus infection in India was reported in end-January, many healthcare workers have been subjected to abuse and violence in the line of duty. The dastardly act of a few people in Chennai who not only attacked healthcare workers but also prevented a decent burial of a neurosurgeon who died of COVID-19 complications on April …

Tackling COVID-19 in Kerala: Hailed by patients and shunned by society, hospital staff recounts working on front-line
4 years, 8 months ago

Tackling COVID-19 in Kerala: Hailed by patients and shunned by society, hospital staff recounts working on front-line

Firstpost  

What pains the people who treat, take care of the patients besides fetching food for patients, clean up their rooms and dispose of the waste is the treatment they are meted outside the hospital. PPE gear and ‘suffocation’ The hospital has charted a four hour long duty time for staff working in the COVID-19 wards instead of the mandatory 8 …

[COVID-19] Uttarakhand HC Directs Govt To Ensure Safety And Welfare Of All Health Workers In The State
4 years, 8 months ago

[COVID-19] Uttarakhand HC Directs Govt To Ensure Safety And Welfare Of All Health Workers In The State

Live Law  

The Uttarakhand High Court on Friday directed all the District Magistrates of the state of Uttarakhand to look into the grievances of Health Care Workers in their respective Districts, besides requiring that the Medical Officers and the medical staff, if aggrieved, may raise their grievance before the State Government instead of approaching the Media. Moreover, all the District Magistrates are …

Opinion | Aaj Ki Baat April 15 episode: Those attacking doctors must be behind bars
4 years, 8 months ago

Opinion | Aaj Ki Baat April 15 episode: Those attacking doctors must be behind bars

India TV News  

Visuals of a senior doctor bleeding inside an ambulance in Moradabad, after a mob stoned health care staff who had gone to a locality for quarantine measures, have shook the people of India. The health care staff led by Dr SC Agrawal had gone there with a police team to take family members of the victim for quarantine. The other …

"Protect & Safeguard First Line Warriors": Plea In SC Seeks Comprehensive Policy Framework For Healthcare Workers
4 years, 8 months ago

"Protect & Safeguard First Line Warriors": Plea In SC Seeks Comprehensive Policy Framework For Healthcare Workers

Live Law  

Supreme Court will hear tomorrow a PIL seeking direction for formulation of a comprehensive policy for welfare & safety of healthcare workers, particularly nurses, who are at the frontline of the COVID outbreak response.Indian Nurses Professional Association which is a society having the primary objective of unifying, organising and empowering nurses across the country, has preferred. Supreme Court will hear …

Stung by scarcity
4 years, 8 months ago

Stung by scarcity

The Hindu  

AT a routine briefing, representatives of the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Union Home Ministry and the Indian Council of Medical Research on health preparedness and the implementation of the nationwide lockdown, sought to give an impression that things were under control, that directives to State governments were being regularly issued and that there was little cause for …

Calcutta HC Asks WB Government To Report On Steps Taken So Far To Contain COVID [Read Order]
4 years, 9 months ago

Calcutta HC Asks WB Government To Report On Steps Taken So Far To Contain COVID [Read Order]

Live Law  

Amidst the world-wide COVID scare, the Calcutta High Court on Wednesday asked the West Bengal government "to report to the Court the steps so far taken to contain the spread of the virus and the facilities that are available for testing of patients". The division bench also inquired from the state about the provision of "PPEs to the medical and …

Supreme Court asks Centre, state governments to ensure security of doctors
4 years, 9 months ago

Supreme Court asks Centre, state governments to ensure security of doctors

Hindustan Times  

The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued directions urging the central and state governments to ensure the safety and well-being of of doctors and medical staff, calling them the real warriors and the “first line of defence” in India’s fight against the coronavirus disease pandemic. Supreme Court has allowed states to take action against anyone who obstructs medical staff or government …

Do no harm: on safety of health care workers
4 years, 9 months ago

Do no harm: on safety of health care workers

The Hindu  

‘Primum non nocere’ is the primary, guiding principle of bioethics. Visuals beamed in of angry locals who threw stones at doctors, health-care workers and civic officials who went to screen people in Indore, Madhya Pradesh. These attacks are a result of paranoia and are completely unmindful of the many risks health-care workers take on, merely doing their work in a …

Coronavirus | ‘Don’t target doctors asking for protective equipment’
4 years, 9 months ago

Coronavirus | ‘Don’t target doctors asking for protective equipment’

The Hindu  

“Don’t target Doctors asking for personal protective equipment,” is the appeal that the All India Institute of Medical Sciences Resident Doctors’ Association has made to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in its letter on Monday RDA AIIMS general secretary Srinivas Rajkumar T. said: “AIIMS RDA has written to the PM, appealing and seeking his intervention to withdraw the punishment of doctors …

Coronavirus | Ensure those in the frontline get PPE, Congress tells Centre
4 years, 9 months ago

Coronavirus | Ensure those in the frontline get PPE, Congress tells Centre

The Hindu  

Senior Congress leader and party general secretary K.C. Venugopal on Monday wrote to Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan demanding urgent intervention from the Centre in ensuring Personal Protective Equipment to the doctors, nurses and health worker who are in the frontline in the battle against the novel coronavirus or COVID-19. “The growing number of doctors, nurses and health workers with …

Lack of PPE, poor infection control put medical staff at risk of Covid-19
4 years, 9 months ago

Lack of PPE, poor infection control put medical staff at risk of Covid-19

Hindustan Times  

Healthcare workers risk contracting Covid-19 due to a lack of infection control in hospitals, doctors say amid complaints about substandard personal protective equipment and lack of basic items like N 95 masks and even sanitisers. “.we were not prepared for an epidemic of this scale but government hospitals are not equipped at all which, in turn, will lead to the …

Andhra HC Seeks Report On Facilties At Government Hospital To Treat COVID-19 Patients [Read Orders]
4 years, 9 months ago

Andhra HC Seeks Report On Facilties At Government Hospital To Treat COVID-19 Patients [Read Orders]

Live Law  

The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Thursday directed the state government to ensure strict compliance of the Supreme Court orders in the matter of providing treatment to COVID positive patients and also providing necessary facilities to the Doctors and the Staff working at the frontline. Keeping this in view, the High Court bench comprising of Chief Justice Sri Jitendra Kumar …

COVID-19: Another Plea In SC For Ensuring Availability Of Protection Kits For Doctors, Police Personnel Working At Frontline
4 years, 9 months ago

COVID-19: Another Plea In SC For Ensuring Availability Of Protection Kits For Doctors, Police Personnel Working At Frontline

Live Law  

Lawyer and activist Amit Sahni has moved the Supreme Court seeking a direction to the government to supply enough stock of personal protective equipment to healthcare workers, Police, Military and para-military Personnels, etc. "In order to keep the morale of Health Worker high, the Government of India and other State Governments are duty bound to immediately take appropriate measures to …

COVID-19 | SC seeks govt. response on protective gear for frontline medical staff
4 years, 9 months ago

COVID-19 | SC seeks govt. response on protective gear for frontline medical staff

The Hindu  

The Supreme Court on Wednesday sought a response from the government on a petition filed by a medical professional to direct the availability of World Health Organisation -graded protective gear for frontline doctors and medical staff fighting the COVID-19 outbreak. Chandrachud, through videoconferencing, issued notice on the petition filed by Dr. Jerryl Banait, a practising medical professional, to provide protective …

Coronavirus Outbreak: Doctors, power workers beaten up as J&K Police enforces lockdown; crowds broke curfew, say cops
4 years, 9 months ago

Coronavirus Outbreak: Doctors, power workers beaten up as J&K Police enforces lockdown; crowds broke curfew, say cops

Firstpost  

A number of videos have emerged showing the Jammu and Kashmir Police roughing up residents, doctors, and power sector workers during the lockdown due to coronavirus Srinagar: A number of videos have emerged on social networking sites showing the Jammu And Kashmir Police roughing up residents, health workers as well as power department workers during the unprecedented nationwide lockdown that …

COVID-19: Gujarat HC Reserves Order On Plea For Enactment Of 'Emergency PPE Law' To Ensure Availability Of Protective Gears For Health Workers [Read Petition]
4 years, 9 months ago

COVID-19: Gujarat HC Reserves Order On Plea For Enactment Of 'Emergency PPE Law' To Ensure Availability Of Protective Gears For Health Workers [Read Petition]

Live Law  

The Gujarat High Court on Friday, after hearing the arguments via video conferencing, reserved order on a petition seeking a direction to the government to supply enough stock of personal protective equipment to healthcare workers, stationed at the frontline to treat the patients of the deadly COVID-19. The plea filed by one Dr. Prabha Taviad through Advocate Dhruvik K. Patel …

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