Rare diseases treatment: Kerala HC asks Union Govt to contribute Rs 1.50 crore

Written by Medical Dialogues Bureau Published On 2020-01-29T16:06:55+05:30 | Updated On 29 Jan 2020 4:06 PM IST

Rare diseases treatment: Kerala HC asks Union Govt to contribute Rs 1.50 crore

Kochi: Kerala High Court on Tuesday directed the Union government to contribute Rs 1.50 crore within a fortnight to the corpus created by the State government to provide medical aid to people suffering from rare diseases.

The direction was given by a Division Bench comprising Chief Justice S Manikumar and Justice Shaji P Chaly.

As per a policy framed in 2017, the Centre has to fund 60 per cent of the corpus while the state government has to fund the rest of the amount.

Source : UNI

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