The Delhi Court Decision

Bee,

I had posted a story earlier ' A hole in the Psyche '- it was based on a story I watched on Kairali TV done it Delhi Correspondent Sunil.

Finally the Delhi court has acted on it. Many congrats to Sunil's efforts! He was happy to share this with me.

"The Delhi High Court today* suggested the city government set up five shelter homes for destitute women to take care of their medical and other requirements.Suggesting a slew of measures for the government to consider, a bench headed by the Chief Justice Dipak Misra said the government should provide mobile medical unit so that people living in slums can be taken to shelter homes."Government of NCT to demarcate five secured shelter homes exclusively meant for destitute women, pregnant and lactating women so that apposite care can be taken and no destitute woman would be compelled to give birth on the footpath," the court said."In the aforesaid shelter homes, food and medical facility shall be available for 24 hours," the court said.The court passed the order in a case which it took up on its own on the basis of media report that a destitute woman died while giving birth to a baby on a footpath at Shankar Market near Connaught Place. The woman was lying in a pool of dirty rainwater on the footpath and she died four days later. The court had on September 1 said hospitals cannot deny treatment to any pregnant woman. "It is the sacrosanct duty of the government to see that children are looked after properly in the hospitals within the guidelines. The hospitals cannot deny any pregnant woman for treatment," the court had said."

*The case was heard on 20th October.

Three cheers to responsible media reporting ! Hurraahhhh!