Deaths due to COVID-linked complications must also be certified as COVID deaths, says Supreme Court
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed that deaths due to COVID-related complications must be certified as COVID deaths.
This would apply to instances the place sufferers had died of COVID-complications even a month or two after being recognized and no matter whether or not the sufferers died at residence or in hospital, the court docket stated.
“A simplified procedure/guidelines is/are required to be issued by the Central Government and/or appropriate authority for issuance of an official document/death certificate stating the exact cause of death, i.e., ‘Death due to Covid-19’,” a Bench led by Justice Ashok Bhushan directed.
“It is the duty of every authority to issue accurate/correct death certificates stating the correct and accurate cause of death, so that the family members of the deceased who died due to COVID-19 may not face any difficulty in getting the benefits of schemes that may be declared by the government,” the judgment famous.
The court docket ordered that the rules ought to also lay down the grievance redressal course of for the households of COVID-19 sufferers in case the demise certificates don’t present COVID-19 as the “exact cause of death”.
The court docket agreed with the petitioners that by not issuing the right/correct demise certificates mentioning the right explanation for demise, that’s COVID-19, the right variety of fatalities due to the pandemic wouldn’t be recognized.
“It is submitted that if the number of persons who died because of COVID-19 are shown less, people would be misled and many a times they would become negligent. It is submitted therefore that it is in the larger public interest also to issue correct/accurate death certificate with correct cause of death,” the highest court docket judgment recorded the arguments of the petitioners.
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