Hyderabad: Swine flu report short on details, irks court
5 years, 8 months ago

Hyderabad: Swine flu report short on details, irks court

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Not getting the desired information in the report submitted by the principal secretary, health and family welfare, about preventive measures implemented by the state to eradicate swine flu, the Telangana High Court termed it vague and sought a comprehensive report by May 8. A division bench comprising acting Chief Justice Raghavendra Singh Chauhan and Justice A. Rajasheker Reddy was dealing with a taken-up PIL based on a letter from advocate Rapolu Bhasker in regarding the lack of provision of medical facilities in government hospitals to treat diseases like swine flu, malaria, and dengue, due to which most patients affected are forced to get admitted in private hospitals. Pointing out the submissions in the report with simple tabular statistics about the preventive and protective measures under the caption ‘sanitizers supplied’ and ‘drugs, capsules, vaccines supplied’, Justice Chauhan said the court would not allow imprecise and inexact reports in the papers without showing the field level action. Justice Chauhan asked Mr Sanjeev Kumar, special counsel for the government, as to what steps the state had taken to prevent persons from getting affected by swine flu as the report stated that in Hyderabad city, 606 patients had tested positive for the infection this year.

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