: Covid: Bombay HC says ‘many lives could have been saved with door-to-door vaccination’ #IndiaNEWS The Bombay High Court on Wednesday expressed its disappointment at the Centre for refusing to start

Covid: Bombay HC says ‘many lives could have been saved with door-to-door vaccination’ #IndiaNEWS
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, PTI reported. 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. The court was hearing a plea filed by two lawyers seeking mobile vaccination facilities for senior citizens above 75, along with disabled persons and those who are bedridden or wheelchair-bound.On April 22, the Centre had informed the court that it was not possible to conduct door-to-door vaccinations in the country, as it was not “feasible??? on several counts. This includes vaccine wastage, inability to provide timely medical care in case of an adverse reaction, challenges in maintaining necessary protocol of 30-minute observation post vaccination, and other logistical problems, the government said, according to Live Law. The High Court, however, had criticised the Centre’s arguments, observing that if a policy denies an elderly person home vaccination because of their delicate medical condition, it must be viewed as “arbitrary and unreasonable???. The division bench had...Read more

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