The Delhi government has issued directions to withdraw an earlier order dated April 25 for setting up of a 100-room COVID health facility at the five-star Ashoka Hotel. for the Delhi High Court’s (HC) justices and other judicial officers and their families.
Delhi’s deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia tweeted this to confirm the withdrawal of the order, which had today faced the high court’s wrath.
The Delhi government on Sunday, April 25, ordered setting up of a 100-room COVID health facility at the five-star Ashoka Hotel in the national capital of Delhi.
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In an order issued by the Chanakyapuri Sub Divisional Magistrate Geeta Grover, New Delhi’s Primus Hospital has been tasked with running the COVID19 facility at the luxury hotel.
“All the services Including rooms, housekeeping, disinfection & food for the patients etc shall be provided by hotel,” the order stated. But the biomedical waste disposal will be the responsibility of the hospital. Ambulance for transfer facility will be provided by the Primus Hospital.
The order also says that the Primus Hospital may accommodate their doctors, nurses and other paramedical staff at their own expenses after deciding the rates mutually.
Hours after it was reported that the Ashoka Hotel in the national capital will be equipped with a COVID19 facility for the Delhi High Court’s justices, judicial staff and their families, the court has denied making any demand for a ‘5-star COVID facility’.
The Delhi High Court clarified that all it wanted was hospitalisation for the staff and the families in the event of contracting the coronavirus infection.
“All that we wanted was in case they need hospitalisation, that facility should be given. It has translated into this order… What is the projection? That… it is to benefit ourselves or that you have done to appease us?”
