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 approached Court under Articles 226/227 seeking balance.
The core legal issue was whether treatment in a private hospital, taken during the first wave of Covid-19 when government hospitals were under severe strain and general surgeries were suspended or delayed, could be reimbursed fully despite policy caps....
