As India reports a high number of coronavirus cases, the number of hospitalization and deaths also increases. Whereas the country is suffering through a shortage of hospital beds, covid
related medicines, vaccines, oxygen supply and other medical facilities.
Amid the worsening of the Coronavirus crisis, the Bombay High Court has raised one of the most controversial questions regarding the Covid related facilities. The court has expressed concern over the number of celebrities and politicians distributing oxygen cylinder/ concentrators and anti-covid drugs, meanwhile, the states suffer shortage.
Raising the issue, the HC asked who will guarantee the quality of the Covid drugs distributed by such people.
The Maharashtra government has submitted a report, showing the number of celebrities and politicians procuring Covid19 medicines for the needy. While going through these reports, the Bombay High Court said, “We are concerned about the lives of our citizens. There cannot be any mileage, popularity or any other kind of mileage from this. We are deeply pained if needy patients are being deprived of it. This is a sorry state of affairs.”
The note submitted by the State government stated that the show-cause notices are served to Mumbai Congress MLA Zeeshan Siddique and the Sood Charity Foundation which is actor Sonu Sood’s NGO. The government is yet to receive the replies.
Hearing this, the bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Dutta and Justice G S Kulkarni said, “We are not impressed. By now you should have had recorded their statements. They don’t have any license.”
In the previous hearing regarding the matter, Advocate Rajesh Inamdar had said that many patients approach Bollywood celebrities and politicians through social media after they fail to get medicines.