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PIL calls for 20 bedded Hospital within High court Premises citing death of lawyer in court due to heart attack
Advocate Amulya Rayna died due to heart attack while he was arguing in the court on November 7 last year
Allahabad: The Allahabad High Court on 27th November asked the Uttar Pradesh government to file its reply on a PIL demanding a 20-bedded hospital in the premises of the court.
A two-judge bench comprising Justice B K Narain and Justice Rohit Ranjan Agarwal passed the order after hearing the PIL filled by advocate Mamta Singh. The Court fixed December 13 for further hearing. In the PIL, it was alleged that advocate Amulya Rayna died due to heart attack while he was arguing in the court on November 7 last year. Earlier also, two more advocates died in the absence of the medical facility at the premises, it said.
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The PIL further alleged that in the 150-year-old high court, there is no proper medical facility for the lawyers and employees. There are about 18,000 advocates, about 5,000 clerks of advocates and thousands of employees in the court. But there is only one dispensary, insufficient to meet medical requirements, it said.
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Garima joined Medical Dialogues in the year 2017 and is currently working as a Senior Editor. She looks after all the Healthcare news pertaining to Medico-legal cases, MCI/DCI decisions, Medical Education issues, government policies as well as all the news and updates concerning Medical and Dental Colleges in India. She is a graduate from Delhi University and pursuing MA in Journalism and Mass Communication. She can be contacted at editorial@medicaldialogues.in Contact no. 011-43720751