While accepting the National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT) government's decision to reserve one bed each for HIV patients in Lok Nayak and Guru Teg Bahadur hospitals, the court said it is inadequate.
The Delhi high court today directed the city government to reserve at least one bed each in all its hospitals which have dialysis facilities for HIV patients.
While accepting the National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT) government's decision to reserve one bed each for HIV patients in Lok Nayak and Guru Teg Bahadur hospitals, the court said it is inadequate and the government was required to reserve at least one bed each in its other hospitals in a time-bound manner.
"The scale of the problem faced by the HIV positive patients in obtaining maintenance dialysis in government hospitals, this court is of the view that it is inadequate to reserve just one bed each in two hospitals of NCT, Delhi.
"In a time-bound manner, at least one bed must be reserved in each of the other hospitals functioning under GNCTD which are otherwise providing dialysis facilities," said Justice S Muralidhar in an order.
Seeking an affidavit within eight weeks from Delhi government's department of health and family welfare, the court asked, "NCT to inform this court the time schedule within which one bed each can be reserved in other government hospitals under the NCT".
The court's direction came after an affidavit filed by the Union health ministry through its counsel Jatan Singh said the Centre has taken a decision to provide dialysis facilities to each of the hospitals under Delhi government.
The court was hearing a petition filed by a HIV-positive patient seeking a direction to All India Institute of Medical Sciences(AIIMS) and other government hospitals in the city which failed to provide him dialysis.
Earlier, the court had directed the central government to chalk out a plan along with the Delhi government to increase the number of city hospitals offering dialysis to HIV-positive patients.
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