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The Gujrat HC division Bench comprising Chief Justice Vikram Nath and Justice J B Pardiwala said that merely criticizing the government in power is not going to magically cure people of COVID-19 nor it is going to make the dead come back to life and also said that the COVID-19 should not be politicized.
The court further said that in this time of crisis we need to bind not bicker and also directed that COVID-19 testing should be done immediately without waiting for the approval from the authorities. The court observed that in these extraordinary circumstances, the role of the opposition is equally important. There is no denying that the role of the opposition is to hold the government to account, but in times like this, a helping hand would be more beneficial than a critical tongue and politicizing this issue one would in fact be downplaying the widespread suffering it has caused and further would be placing politics and political intent before the aim of helping and saving lives. The court said that while adversarial criticism may do not, constructive criticism can help.
The bench made these observations to the earlier orders of the courts against the conditions in Ahmedabad civil hospital putting the state government on spot. The bench further observed that we have gathered the impression that our orders passed from time to time in the larger interest of the public are being misused for some oblique motive.
Thereafter the bench said that it was only attempting to remind the state of its constitutional duties and the state has taken the matter seriously. Ordinally, the high court would not interfere with the functioning of the state government. The bench also said that if the state government would not have been doing anything as alleged then probably by now we all would have been dead.
The court said that the necessary medical protocols must be strictly adhered to and passed directions that there should be no shortage of manpower, the medical protocols required for different categories of patients are not being strictly followed.
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