Has the State government lost the zeal to fight COVID-19 and decided to let people fend for themselves, asked the Telangana High Court on Wednesday.
Referring to government’s style of tackling coronavirus and non-compliance of its directions on related issues, the HC said it would be compelled to act tough with the government. A bench of Chief Justice Raghvendra Singh Chauhan and Justice B. Vijaysen Reddy, hearing a batch of PIL pleas on different aspects of government’s handling the situation, instructed Gandhi Hospital Superintendent to attend the hearings online on Thursday.
The bench also wanted Public Health Director G. Srinivasa Rao, who earlier attended the hearings online, to appear on Thursday stating that he made some promises but they were not delivered. Advocate General B.S. Prasad said even Mr. Rao was under quarantine and it would be difficult for him to attend the proceedings.
Making it clear that physical and medical safety of each and every member of medical department was of pivotal importance, the bench said the government was talking about having stocks of over 70,000 PPE kits. “We are not concerned with the stock but specifically want to know how many are being supplied to doctors,” the CJ said.
