HC takes up matter of govt takeover of Wadia Hospital, run as COVID-19 facility
Mumbai: The matter of takeover of Wadia Hospitals and earmarking it exclusively for the treatment of coronavirus patients was recently addressed before the Bombay High Court.
The Public Interest Litigation (PIL) to this effect was filed by Abhinav Bharat Congress, an unregistered "think tank" and its founder Pankaj Phadnis, who sought the state high court's intervention in view of the deadly COVID 19 outbreak in the State of Maharashtra and rising death toll.
In the past month, many health centres have been designated as COVID treatment centres so to increase the facilities for treatment of coronavirus infected patients.
In one such petition seeking the takeover of Wadia Hospitals as COVID 19 centre, the petition was filed.
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During the recent hearing via video-conference, a former officer on special duty at the Wadia hospitals and former solicitor general Mohan Parasaran from Delhi presented their contentions.
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