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New Delhi, Oct 12 (PTI) The Delhi government will challenge the high court's Friday order quashing its circular mandating preferential treatment to city residents over non-residents at the GTB Hospital here, Health Minister Satyendar Jain said."We will appeal in the apex court and put up our case there," Jain said.Under the pilot project implemented at the Guru Teg Bahadur (GTB) Hospital early this month, Delhi residents get preference at registration counters, in-patient department, tests and medicine counter service. The identification is done on the basis of voter identity card."Three years ago, we had made disbursing of essential medicines free, following which the crowd at the hospital increased. Earlier, it used to be 5,000-5,500 people per day but it went up to 9,000-10,000," Jain told reporters.The Delhi health minister said, the move to give preference to Delhiites was mooted because many residents had "complained" that though the facility had been announced they couldn't avail it of due to huge crowd.One bed was being shared by two persons, which "we thought was unfair," he said."Also, consultancy and OPD facilities are free for all, and only medicine facilities would be for the people of Delhi. Besides, emergency facilities are free and only for planned treatment we have reserved 80 per cent for Delhiites and rest for others," Jain said.The high court Friday quashed the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government's circular giving preferential treatment to Delhi residents over non-residents at the hospital, saying it led to creation of a "class within a class" of identically placed citizens which was "impermissible".The minister said, the Delhi government will challenge the high court's order in the Supreme Court.Earlier in the day, a government spokesperson had said that it is the duty of any government to provide better facilities to the taxpayers."The Delhi government disagrees with the honourable Delhi High Court on the issue of providing facilities to Delhi residents at the GTB Hospital and it will challenge the court's order in the honourable Supreme Court," he said.The proposal to give preference to the residents of Delhi at the hospital in east Delhi's Dilshad Garden was approved in August by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.A bench of Chief Justice Rajendra Menon and Justice V K Rao had earlier reserved its verdict on the PIL filed by NGO Social Jurist, challenging the Delhi government's pilot project.The court was examining whether the project was violating the rights to equality and life, guaranteed under the Constitution.The bench had earlier said it had noted the government's "difficulties" related to infrastructure, staff and facilities and added that it would consider if these were valid grounds to deny others their rights under Article 14 and 21 of the Constitution.The NGO, in its plea, had said the hospital could not discriminate against patients based on their regional identity, while adding that such discrimination was not seen anywhere else in the country.
New Delhi, Oct 12 (PTI) The Delhi government will challenge the high court's Friday order quashing its circular on giving preferential treatment to city residents over non-residents at the GTB Hospital here, an official said Friday.
Under the pilot project implemented early October, the residents of Delhi get preference at the registration counters, in-patient department, tests and medicine counter service, and identification is done on the basis of voter identity card at the Guru Teg Bahadur (GTB) Hospital."It is the duty of any government to provide better facilities to the taxpayers," a Delhi government spokesperson said."The Delhi government disagrees with the honourable Delhi High Court on the issue of providing facilities to Delhi residents at the GTB Hospital and it will challenge the court's order in the honourable Supreme Court," he added.The proposal to give preference to the residents of Delhi at the hospital in east Delhi's Dilshad Garden was approved in August by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.The high court Friday quashed the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government's circular on giving preferential treatment to Delhi residents over non-residents at the hospital.A bench of Chief Justice Rajendra Menon and Justice V K Rao had earlier reserved its verdict on the PIL filed by NGO Social Jurist, challenging the Delhi government's pilot project.The court was examining whether the project was violating the rights to equality and life, guaranteed under the Constitution.The bench had earlier said it had noted the government's "difficulties" related to infrastructure, staff and facilities and added that it would consider if these were valid grounds to deny others their rights under Article 14 and 21 of the Constitution.The NGO, in its plea, had said the hospital could not discriminate against patients based on their regional identity, while adding that such discrimination was not seen anywhere else in the country.
New Delhi, Oct 12 (PTI) The Delhi High Court Friday quashed the Aam Aadmi Party government's circular on giving preferential treatment to Delhi residents over non-residents at the GTB Hospital here. A bench of Chief Justice Rajendra Menon and Justice V K Rao had earlier reserved its verdict on the PIL filed by NGO Social Jurist challenging the Delhi government's pilot project.The court was examining whether the AAP government's project at the GTB Hospital to give preferential treatment to city residents was violating the rights to equality and life enjoyed by others under the Constitution.The bench had earlier said that it has noted the AAP government's "difficulties" related to infrastructure, staff and facilities and had said that it will consider if these are valid grounds to deny others their rights under Article 14 and 21 of the Constitution.At the previous hearing, the Delhi government's senior standing counsel Rahul Mehra had told the court that no individual has so far filed a complaint against its October 1 circular initiating the pilot project at the hospital.Mehra had said that no one was being denied treatment, access to tests or outpatient (OPD) facilities and the hospital was only prioritising whom to treat first.He had also said that the Delhi government took this policy decision as the huge influx of patients was putting a lot of strain on its infrastructure and staff, and it was also leading to manhandling of doctors by patients or their attendants.The bench, however, was unimpressed by the contention and had asked, "Who is responsible for this? The courts? Or is it mismanagement? If you cannot manage then stop the facilities." The bench had said that the government ought to have evaluated the shortcomings and taken steps to rectify them, instead of taking away the rights of others by changing the manner in which they are provided treatment.The NGO, in its plea filed through advocate Ashok Agarwal, had opposed the pilot project initiated by the Delhi government at the Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital.It had challenged the October 1 circular issued by the government, claiming that it denies treatment to non-residents at the GTB Hospital.Agarwal argued before the court that thousands of patients coming from outside Delhi and those not possessing a voter ID card of Delhi were being denied treatment at the hospital subsequent to the issuance of the circular.The NGO, in its plea, had said that the hospital cannot discriminate against patients based on their regional identity and added that such discrimination was not seen anywhere else in the country.The proposal to give preference to residents of Delhi at the GTB Hospital in east Delhi's Dilshad Garden was approved in August by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.Under the pilot project, residents of Delhi get preference at registration counters, in-patient department, tests and medicine counter service and identification is done on the basis of voter identity card.
New Delhi, Jan 18: Delhi Chief Minsiter Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday made a surprise visit at GTB
Hospital to check whether the health services of the Government are being
properly delivered to patients.
"Made a surprise visit of GTB hospital. Long queues at
pharmacy. Need to increase no of counters n pharmacists. Shortage of ultrasound
machines," the Chief Minister tweeted.
Mr Kejriwal said, during his visit, he personally spoke to
many patients and they expressed satisfaction with the availability of medicines.
He also claimed that 70 patients were from outside Delhi. He
was accompanied by Health Minister Satyendar Jain and the Health Secretary. UNI
