P&H: Medical Reimbursement For Covid-Era Emergency - Surgery done in private Hospital - Government Policy Can’t Curtail Right To Medical Care.

punjab-haryana
⚖️ Order Date: N/A
Headnotes
Service -- Medical reimbursement during Covid-19 emergency - Punjab Government Policy/Letter — Petitioner shifted his wife to a private hospital under exceptional circumstances and not by choice or luxury - Denial of full reimbursement is unsustainable and balance amount is directed to be released. (Paras 13 & 23) Medical reimbursement - Punjab Government Policy/Letter dated 13.02.1995, cl. (b) — Medical reimbursement during Covid-19 emergency — Object of policy -Primary object of policy is to regulate claims of medical reimbursement

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Facts of the Case
P&H: Medical Reimbursement For Covid-Era Emergency - Surgery done in private Hospital - Government Policy Can’t Curtail Right To Medical Care. High Court has directed release of balance medical reimbursement to a retired High Court employee who took his wife to a private hospital for emergency surgery during Covid-19 pandemic. Court allowed the writ petition and ordered the authorities to pay the remaining amount within eight weeks. Husband on his wife’s surgery for an inter-trochanteric femur fracture

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