Ahmedabad Medical Association moves Court seeking permission for Covid-19 tests sans govt interference
Gandhinagar: The Ahmedabad chapter of the Indian Medical Association (IMA), the Ahmedabad Medical Association (AMA), filed a PIL in the Gujarat High Court (HC) on Wednesday against the state government's decision to prohibit private laboratories from conducting Covid-19 tests without getting an approval from the government health officials.
One of the oldest medical associations of India with 9,000 members, the AMA moved the high court seeking approval for private pathological laboratories (approved by the Indian Council of Medical Research) to conduct RT-PCR testing for Covid-19 without any interference from the state government.
The ICMR has granted permission to 12 private laboratories in Gujarat to conduct RT-PCR tests. But according to the PIL, since the last week or more, the state government is not giving permission to private labs to conduct RT-PCR tests without its approval.
These approvals, according to the PL, were being withheld for no justifiable reason. It said such orders were arbitrary, illegal and without the authority of law.
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