Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court on Thursday faulted the medical authorities for not filing adequate details in a petition seeking the providing of medicare facilities at the Government Hospital at Mahbubabad. The court was dealing with a PIL filed over the death of a person suffering from kidney and other ailments at the Civil Hospital, Mahbubabad district. The hospital allegedly denied him treatment over not having an Aadhaar card and not being accompanied by any attendant.Officials filed counters submitting that they did not insist the Aadhaar card. Reacting to it, the court expressed anger at the filing of the counter without submitting the details of facilities. According to the PIL, one Ravi, after allegedly being denied treatment, was abandoned on the hospital premises where he remained unconscious for three days, before being presumed to be dead and shifted to the mortuary on the fourth day. He was later found to be alive and taken for treatment but died later.HC Directs State Govt. To File Counter-affidavit In PIL Challenging Implementation Of Urea Booking App Hyderabad,: The Telangana High Court on Thursday directed the state government to file a comprehensive counter-affidavit within two weeks in a public interest litigation (PIL) challenging the implementation of the ‘Urea booking App’ for the distribution of fertiliser. The court asked if the government thought that all farmers in the state had smartphones or were well-versed in operating the Urea app. A division bench comprising Chief Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh and Justice G.M. Mohiuddin was dealing with a PIL filed by Chintareddy Srinivas Reddy, former president of the Rythu Bandhu Samiti (Nalgonda district), along with four farmers, seeking immediate scrapping of the app-based system. Arguing for the petitioners, advocate Pasham Ravinder Reddy contended that exclusive reliance on the Urea app had caused severe hardship to farmers. The petitioners urged the court to direct the government to discontinue the system or, alternatively, introduce an accessible offline mechanism alongside the digital platform. He submitted that no urea was being providing for tenant farmers and assigned land owners. Mohana Reddy, government counsel for agriculture and co-operatives, argued that the app was introduced to streamline the system and to restrict attempts to divert the fertiliser to the black market. According to her, only real farmers were able to get urea via the app, whereas earlier there were chances of diverting the fertiliser. She also submitted that the government had established farmer centres to enable growers to get urea on producing land and other details. The court sought detailed counters on the supply of urea and any standard operating procedures issued for the process.
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