Summary:
Bombay High Court suggests starting a door-to-door vaccination drive proactively.
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Amid the Covid19 surge, the Bombay High Court said on the Covid19 deaths that if the door-to-door vaccination drive for the senior citizens had started a few months back, then many lives would have saved.
The Bombay High Court on Wednesday expressed its disappointment at the Centre for refusing to start door-to-door Covid vaccinations for senior citizens, saying that many lives would have been saved if only authorities had conducted the exercise.
A division bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice GS Kulkarni once again asked the Union government to explain why it would not start door-to-door inoculation campaigns when the lives of the country’s citizens were at stake.
If door-to-door #vaccination programme had started for senior citizens a few months back, many lives could have been saved: Bombay HC
— Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) May 12, 2021
The bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice GS Kulkarni questioned the Centre`s reluctance on the door-to-door inoculation issue after the Additional Socilitor General said the Union had opposed it even in the Supreme Court.
Why not start door-to-door vaccination proactively when lives of senior citizens are concerned? Bombay HC asks Centre
— Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) May 12, 2021
Meanwhile, Chief Justice questioned the Centre for not placing anything on record to show it had re-looked its vaccination policy despite the ASG making a statement to that effect in the last hearing.
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