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| Directs Govt to implement its recommendations | | HC forms committee on Swine Flu | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Mar 9: The state High Court today directed constitution of a committee and asked it to chalk out programs to control swine flu spread in Kashmir Valley.
Hearing a Public Interest Litigation, a division bench of Justices Muzaffar Hussain Attar and Ali Mohammad Magrey also directed the committee to work out the requirements and report to the Government about the measures required to be taken for effectively dealing with H1N1 influenza.
On the receipt of the report of the Committee, the bench directed the state and union of India to initiate necessary measures for implementing the recommendations by the committee.
The court also directed the panel to take necessary steps in conducting public awareness programs about the influenza and protective measures to be adopted by the people.
"Till the Government nominates an authority, the Head of the Committee (Director SKIMS) shall henceforth be responsible to brief the Press about the measures taken for effective control of H1N1 influenza," the division bench court said and asked the authority to inform the general public through Print and Electronic Media about the protective measures to be taken.
"The Committee shall also report to Government about the measures to be taken in respect of protecting school going children from the H1N1 influenza," the court said and directed the State Government to take immediate steps for implementing the recommendation by the committee.
In this regard, the division bench directed the Commissioner Secretary Medical Education Department, court to file compliance report before next date of hearing on March 17.
Besides seeking directions to take necessary precautionary measure by providing vaccination to general public, the petitioner advocate Syed Ajaz Ahmad Qadri also urged court to command them to make drugs and vaccines available in all the hospitals.
The PIL also seeks directions to vaccinate school going children as well as the employees of hospitals.
Qadri has highlighted need for checking the spread of virus before it goes beyond control in Srinagar especially crowded places like hospitals and the High Court.
"People from village to urban areas attend patients in the hospitals and they need to be protected and special arrangement requires to be made before disease will go beyond the control," he said.
The people, he said, are in fear about the virus and precautionary measures are required to be put in school and other public places including airport.
The guidelines issued by the Health Department, Qadri said, have created doubt in the mind of the "literate as well as illiterate masses." |
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