Delhi High Court slams Kejriwal authorities over its dealing with of Covid crisis.
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday pulled up Arvind Kejriwal authorities over its dealing with of the present Covid crisis within the nationwide capital. Angered over the mismanagement, the courtroom instructed the Aam Aadmi Party authorities that it’ll ask the Centre to take over ‘if you can’t handle it’.
“Set your house in order. If you cannot manage it, we will ask the central government to takeover,” the Delhi High Court.
The courtroom noticed that the federal government authorities appeared fully unaware in regards to the floor realities and are simply issuing ‘unreasonable orders’. The courtroom’s comment got here after the Maharaja Agrasen Hospital stated that it was not possible to comply with the federal government’s order to present oxygen and medication to sufferers inside minutes of admission in emergency ward.
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The courtroom additionally famous that rampant black advertising and marketing of Covid-related medicines was on amid the pandemic and directed the town authorities to conduct a correct audit.
“We direct the Delhi government to take record from all pharmacies on supply of Remdesivir, Dexamethasone and Fabiflu and other drugs and conduct random audit to find out if there has been any black marketing,” the courtroom stated.
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“It is clear to us that Delhi government has to pull up its socks with respect to distribution of not only liquid oxygen but also oxygen cylinders. In case the refiller does not provide the data to the GNCTD portal, strict action would be taken against them by the GNCTD and us,” the courtroom added.
