"You Are Not A Doctor, Medical Student or A Scientist": Supreme Court Dismisses With Cost Plea Seeking Directions For Covid Treatment And Tests
3 years, 10 months ago

"You Are Not A Doctor, Medical Student or A Scientist": Supreme Court Dismisses With Cost Plea Seeking Directions For Covid Treatment And Tests

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Supreme Court has on Monday dismissed with costs, a plea filed seeking directions regarding tests and treatment to be conducted for treatment of covid. The Court also pulled up the petitioner, a commerce graduate for filing a petition without any knowledge on the subject. The Court has directed him to pay the cost to Legal Services Authority of Calcutta High Court and submit a report to Supreme court. The Bench had initially observed that it will impose a cost of 1 lakh for such a 'frivolous writ petition', but after the petitioner submitted that he only had an amount of 1000, the Court decided to impose Rs 1000 as the cost.

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Supreme Court Adjourns Plea Seeking Disclosure Of COVID Vaccine Clinical Trial & Efficacy Data
3 years, 4 months ago

Supreme Court Adjourns Plea Seeking Disclosure Of COVID Vaccine Clinical Trial & Efficacy Data

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The Supreme Court on Monday adjourned the writ petition seeking public disclosure of vaccine clinical trial data and post vaccination data as required by International medical norms for November 29, 2021. Arguing that vaccine mandates were still being issued and that people were losing their jobs, Advocate Prashant Bhushan appearing for the petitioner Dr.Jacob Puliyel requested the bench to hear …

Not For Court To Render Advice/Directions To Govt. About Line Of Treatment For COVID: Delhi HC Dismisses Plea With 25K Cost
3 years, 9 months ago

Not For Court To Render Advice/Directions To Govt. About Line Of Treatment For COVID: Delhi HC Dismisses Plea With 25K Cost

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The Delhi High Court this week dismissed a Writ Plea terming it as 'Publicity Interest Litigation' while observing that It is not for the Court to render advice much less issue directions to the Government on the line of treatment that is required to be followed for COVID.The Bench of Chief Justice D. N. Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh was …

Billing By Pvt Hospitals Highly Inflated And Unreasonable: Plea In Supreme Court Seeks Mechanism To Regulate Cost On COVID19 Treatment Across The Country
3 years, 10 months ago

Billing By Pvt Hospitals Highly Inflated And Unreasonable: Plea In Supreme Court Seeks Mechanism To Regulate Cost On COVID19 Treatment Across The Country

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Alleging commercial exploitation of Covid patients by private hospitals, a plea has been filed before the Supreme Court seeking nationwide Cost Related regulations for treatment of Covid 19 patients at private/ corporate hospitals. The plea has stated that presently when the nation is fighting a battle against a pandemic, all private hospitals running on public land allotted at concessional rates, …

Supreme Court Issues Notice And Seeks Response From Centre On Plea Seeking Capping of Prices of RT-PCR Tests
4 years, 4 months ago

Supreme Court Issues Notice And Seeks Response From Centre On Plea Seeking Capping of Prices of RT-PCR Tests

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Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notice in a plea which seeks for the caping of the prices of RT-PCR tests, used to test suspected COVID patients, at Rs. Agarwal contended before the Bench that various hospitals across were charging exorbitant prices for the RT-PCR tests, whereas the actual cost of the test was merely Rs. The matter has been tagged …

Delhi HC Rejects Plea Seeking Court To Prevent Private Hospitals From Charging Exorbitant Fee For COVID19 Treatment
4 years, 9 months ago

Delhi HC Rejects Plea Seeking Court To Prevent Private Hospitals From Charging Exorbitant Fee For COVID19 Treatment

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Delhi High Court has refused to issue directions in a plea seeking court's intervention in preventing private hospitals from charging exorbitant fee for COVID19 treatment. Filed by Advocate Amit Sahni, the petition sought court's directions for preventing private COVID facilities from charging exorbitant prices from the patients. The Petitioner further sought directions to ensure that those who require immediate medical …

SC seeks replies on pleas to reduce hospital charges
4 years, 9 months ago

SC seeks replies on pleas to reduce hospital charges

Hindustan Times  

The Supreme Court on Friday heard two petitions on capping the cost of treatment of Covid-19 in private hospitals. It asked the Centre and private hospitals to respond, and also suggested that hospitals run by charitable trusts on land provided by the government at nominal rates be asked to provide such treatment at prices fixed under the government’s Ayushman Bharat …

Identify Private Hospitals Where Cost-Effective/Free Treatment For COVID-19 Can Be Done : SC Tells Centre
4 years, 10 months ago

Identify Private Hospitals Where Cost-Effective/Free Treatment For COVID-19 Can Be Done : SC Tells Centre

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The Supreme Court on Wednesday took up for hearing a plea seeking nationwide cost related regulations for treatment of Coronavirus patients at private and corporate hospitals. A bench of Chief Justice SA Bobde, Justices AS Bopanna & Hrishikesh Roy directed the Centre to identify a list of those hospitals where minimum or free of cost treatment can be done for …

"Don't Create Publicity Interest Litigations" SC In Plea Seeking Free Treatment For COVID19 Patients
4 years, 11 months ago

"Don't Create Publicity Interest Litigations" SC In Plea Seeking Free Treatment For COVID19 Patients

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The Supreme Court on Tuesday took up a plea in an application seeking free treatment of Coronavirus infected patients.A bench comprising Justices NV Ramana, Sanjay Kishan Kaul & BR Gavai made strong observations against the plea filed on behalf of Amit Dwivedi.Bench noted that the petition was nothing but a publicity stunt and strongly remarked that such petitions must not. …

SC Refuses To Entertain Homeo Doctor's Plea To Explore Alternate Medicines For COVID-19
4 years, 11 months ago

SC Refuses To Entertain Homeo Doctor's Plea To Explore Alternate Medicines For COVID-19

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The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to entertain a plea seeking directions to the authorities to explore possibilities of alternate Unani and Homeopathic medicines to treat pandemic COVID-19. A bench headed by Justices N V Ramana was told by the counsel for the petitioner, a doctor of homeopathy, that since there was no medicines or treatment available for novel Coronavires,. …

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