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Court
summons AIIMS chief over charitable pharmacy
Sunday, September 26, 2010 05:16:52 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
The Delhi High Court has summoned the director of the All India
Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) to explain why no space has
been allotted to a charitable pharmacy that aims to provide cheap
medicines to poor patients.
A division bench headed by Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul asked AIIMS
Director R.C. Deka to appear before it Sep 30 and explain the
reasons for the delay in alloting space.
Taking a serious view of the issue, the bench asked the central
government to find a place within the AIIMS premises for allotment
to the Surekha Public Charity Trust.
“We refuse to accept that on a large campus of AIIMS there is no
space available for a charitable organization to give subsidized
medicines to patients which is a matter of primary concern,” said
the court.
“If space can be allotted to existing barber shops, tailor shops
and beauty parlours, certainly a space or spaces can be allotted
for such charitable purpose,” the court said in an order delivered
Friday.
The bench earlier directed the health ministry to frame a policy
in consultation with AIIMS for making available a space for such a
charitable purpose within three months. However, neither the
central government nor the hospital management has done anything
so far.
Filing a petition, the charitable trust told the court that no
space has been allotted at AIIMS for any charitable institution to
open a pharmacy for giving subsidised medicines to poor patients.
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