Noting that there ought to be an efficient mechanism for enabling the poor sufferers avail of advantages of the Poor Affected person Welfare Fund, the Punjab and Haryana Excessive Court docket has requested the PGIMER, Chandigarh to file an affidavit on this regard.
The affidavit has been sought by a bench of Chief Justice Sheel Nagu and Justice Anil Kshetarpal, whereas it was listening to a plea filed by the attendant of a affected person, who’s present process remedy on the PGIMER.
The petition, filed by Divya Sharma, stated that affected person, Ravinder Kumar, who has undergone cardio vascular surgical procedure at PGIMER, Chandigarh has been implanted Automated Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (AICD), which runs on battery.
Sharma informed the excessive courtroom that the battery of the gadget is operating out and the plea raised by the affected person for grant of funds for the acquisition of battery, out of the Poor Affected person Welfare Funds, PGIMER, has “fallen on deaf ears”, and that the affected person has no monetary sources to afford the battery, which prices greater than Rs 3 lakh.
Responding to the plea, Satya Pal Jain, Further Solicitor Normal of India, throughout the proceedings volunteered within the matter, and additional knowledgeable the courtroom that after getting in contact with the PGIMER director, the affected person has been offered help from Poor Affected person Welfare Fund and the method for change of battery of AICD implanted within the coronary heart of the affected person, is underway.
The bench in the meantime famous: “the bigger subject, which crops up on this case, is that there ought to be correct and efficient mechanism on the degree of sufferers and docs for enabling the poor sufferers to avail of the advantages underneath the Poor Affected person Welfare Fund, accessible with the PGIMER, Chandigarh.”
“Let an affidavit in that regard be filed by the PGIMER, Chandigarh,” the bench ordered because it adjourned the listening to of the case for January 17.
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