High Court directs JNU to create COVID care facility for staff.
Students and faculty of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) moved the High Court of Delhi pleading that isolation and quarantine facilities be set up to curb the second wave. In response, the High Court stated that the lack of action by the administration of JNU amounted to gross negligence. The High Court thereafter directed the administration to set up a COVID care facility within the campus and consider the proposal for in-house oxygen production. Some of the directions of the High Court have been reproduced below-
“The Vice Chancellor/Registrar of JNU to also ascertain the necessity and feasibility in respect of creation of the COVID care facility in the JNU campus and file a status report thereof. The report shall also take into consideration the proposals given by the Centre for Social Medicine and Community Health (CSMCH) as also the proposal for inhouse production of oxygen, given by the School of Life Sciences.
The SDM/ADM of the concerned area to also place on record a status report, as to whether such a COVID care facility can be created at JNU, in accordance with the guidelines applicable, and if so indicating the manner in which the doctors and paramedics, as also nurses, would be made available for the said facility, and whether they would be tied up with any particular hospital, and if so, name the said hospital after obtaining its concurrence.”