Kerala High Court directs State govt. to ensure ventilator facility at Tirurangadi taluk hospital
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MLA’s petition says many COVID-19 sufferers died due to non-availability of remedy amenities in Malappuram district
A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court on Friday directed the State authorities to take steps to ensure that ventilator facility was made out there at the Government Taluk Hospital at Tirurangadi in Malappuram if the hospital didn’t have such a facility.
The Bench comprising Justice A. Muhamed Mustaqueand Justice Kauser Edappagath noticed that if there have been no ventilators out there at the hospital, it might have severe affect on the remedy of COVID-19 sufferers.
The directive was handed when a public curiosity litigation petition filed by K.P.A. Majeed, Indian Union Muslim League chief and Tirurangadi MLA, got here up for listening to. According to the petition, the variety of ventilators and oxygen beds was insufficient in Malappuram district.
Advocate General K. Gopalakrishna Kurup submitted that if the allegation of the petitioner that ventilator facility was not out there within the hospital was true, the federal government would supply them inside 24 hours.
He added that as per the 2011 Census, the inhabitants of the district was 41 lakh. Of the 34.97 lakh focused inhabitants within the age group of 18 to 44 years, 7.3 lakh had been vaccinated. A complete of 5,496 beds, together with regular, ICU, and oxygen supported beds have been out there for COVID-19 sufferers. It, thus, labored out to one mattress per 748 individuals. Besides, 145 ventilators have been out there within the district. The whole variety of beds for COVID-19 sufferers out there in Tirurangadi was 106, together with 68 oxygen-point beds and 18 statement beds.
The petitioner had identified that ventilators and oxygen beds out there within the district couldn’t deal with the rising variety of instances there. Many COVID-19 sufferers had misplaced their lives due to the non-availability of remedy amenities within the district. The COVID management room and struggle rooms within the district weren’t working correctly and offering appropriate data to the general public, acknowledged the petition.
The courtroom adjourned the listening to on the petition to June 8.
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