Gauhati HC orders govt to address post-Covid issues

GUWAHATI: The Gauhati high court has underlined the need for Assam government to establish a “more cohesive form of service” by setting up centralized unit or ward or clinic to address the problems of patients with post-Covid complicacies.
Last Monday, the court of Justice N Kotiswar Singh and Justice Manish Choudhury directed that “In any event, this facility to be provided to the post-Covid patients needs to be widely publicised as many patients who have suffered with Covid infection are not aware of any such post-Covid treatment/consultation which may be available in various government hospitals/health care centres.”
The court, while hearing a petition filed by one Anjan Nagg, seeking establishment of post-Covid clinics in the state noted, “Though, we have noted the steps already taken by the state government, we feel that there is no mention of establishment of any centralized office or unit or ward or clinic where patients with post-Covid complicacies can go and get their problems addressed.Though arrangements have been made as reflected in the affidavit (government’s), it appears to be decentralized and scattered. In our view, a more cohesive form of service may be required to be given by opening a ward or unit or a centre as the case may be.”