Orissa High Court Asks State To Apprise Steps Taken To Provide Free Medical Treatment & Surgeries To Acid Attack Victims
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Orissa High Court Asks State To Apprise Steps Taken To Provide Free Medical Treatment & Surgeries To Acid Attack Victims

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The Orissa High Court has asked the State to apprise it about the steps taken by the Government to provide free medical treatment and reconstructive surgeries to the victims of acid attacks. The Supreme Court in Laxmi had directed the State Governments and Union Territories to take steps to provide free medical treatment, bedding, food and reconstructive surgery to all the victims of acid attacks. Having regard for the aforesaid order of the top Court, the Court asked the counsel for the State to obtain instruction as to what sort of provisions have been made by the Government of Odisha to provide medical treatment, particularly, plastic surgery to the acid attack victims. If the said treatment is not available in S.C.B.M.C.H., the State shall make necessary arrangement of the treatment of the victim in other Government/private hospital either inside the State or outside,” the Court further directed.

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