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DB grants final opportunity to Govt for filling status report over Eye-Bank
3/9/2016 10:53:47 PM
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Jammu, Mar 9: In a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking establishment of eye-bank, the Division Bench of State High Court Comprising Chief Justice N Paul Vasnathkumar and Justice Tashi Rabstan today granted two weeks' final opportunity to the counsel for the respondents to file written status report regarding bank at Srinagar as well as at Jammu.
The petitioner has submitted to court that the only eye-bank operating the state was closed by the respondents in the year 1994 and no eye-bank or eye-donation centre is functioning till date in the state of Jammu & Kashmir. It was asserted that blind population and injured population in eyes has no medical avenue in the state of J&K for which they have to go outside the state of J&K at huge expenses and times. It added the right to public health and medical care has been held to be one of the facets of the Article of the Constitution of India. The respondents has ample funds at their disposal to establish and operate at-least one eye-bank in each capital of the state as the crores of rupees of medical grant from the Government of India has been utilized up to less than 5 percent only and prayer for issuance of directions to the state of J&K and its functionaries to establish at-least one eye camp in the city of Jammu and Srinagar. (JNF)
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