Gauhati High Court asks govt to clear stand on non-COVID certificate within 2 weeks

GUWAHATI: The Gauhati High Court has granted two more weeks to the state government to clarify the ground reality regarding the insistence of non-COVID certificate for admission to various hospitals .

A division bench, headed by Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia, granted the further two-week time to file the affidavit.

In a PIL, No 48/2020, Congress MLA Debabrata Saikia has stated that various instances were brought into notice of the court regarding refusal of hospitals across the state to entertain urgent admissions of many critically ill patients due to non production of COVID negative medical certificate.

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Counsel for the petitioner, Syed Burhanur Rahman, argued that notice was already issued in the instant matter but no affidavit was filed by the state and resultantly due to insistance of such non-COVID certificates many vulnerable patients such as pregnant women, cardiac patients etc are still suffering.