The hospital presented a contradicting stand, saying there was a link between oxygen supply and the deaths as no oxygen was supplied to them for 30 hours despite several alerts.
The judge gave the DCP the last opportunity to file the status report in the case involving the alleged deaths of Covid patients due to oxygen shortage at the hospital in April.
The plea contends that the cause of death of 21 Covid patients at the Delhi hospital was respiratory failure due to insufficient supply of oxygen and not comorbidities.
In pursuance to the order of the bench, the Delhi government had directed hospitals and nursing homes to send details of patients whose death occurred due to shortage of oxygen.
If this step even partially achieves its desired results, there will be so much dislocation in the country’s economic structure as to prove a national calamity, advocate AG Mulgaokar wrote in 1969.
Recommendations appear in Niti Aayog’s Tax Policy Working Paper Series–II. It says there is a need to shift away from fear-based enforcement to trust-based governance.
In service with the British military since 2019, it is also known as the Martlet missile. Ukrainians have also deployed these missiles against Russian troops.
Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.
COMMENTS