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Court seeks details of dialysis facilities

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: The Karnataka High Court on Wednesday directed the State Government to file a report on the dialysis facilities available in government hospitals in the State.

A Division Bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Deepak Verma and Justice A.S. Bopanna passed the order on a public interest litigation (PIL) petition by the Kidney Patients’ Welfare Association.

The association had petitioned the court seeking better facilities for kidney patients in hospitals. It had also pointed out the lack of adequate dialysis machines in the State and inadequate infrastructure in government and government-managed hospitals.

The Bench orally observed that during the last hearing itself, it had asked the State Government to file a report on the medical facilities, including dialysis machines, available in government hospitals.

When the Government sought more time, the Bench pointed out that during the last hearing itself it had promised to file the status report. It asked the Government to comply with the earlier court order and adjourned further hearing on the case.

Direction

A Division Bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Deepak Verma and Justice A.S. Bopanna on Wednesday directed the State Government to file its statement to a public interest litigation (PIL) petition by K. Krishna Bhat seeking better facilities in government hospitals in the State.

The petitioner said the government hospitalslacked basic facilities and patients seeking treatment in such hospitals are put to a lot of hardship.

Dismissed

Justice Huluvadi G. Ramesh on Wednesday upheld the acquisition of land by the State Government for setting up the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Health Sciences (RGUHS) in Archakarahalli near Ramnagaram on the Bangalore-Mysore Highway. The court said the lands are sought to be acquired for public purpose and that there is no mala fide in the acquisition proceedings. It said persons whose lands were sought to be acquired were paid compensation.

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