The Bombay High Court on Friday pulled up the Maharashtra government for not releasing or spending the entire budgetary allocation for procurement of drugs and medical equipment, citing that it was letting the amount lapse at the cost of the healthcare system.
A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice D.K. Upadhyaya and Justice Arif Doctor sought to know from the government what steps have been taken to spend the budgetary allocation, the reasons for not releasing the amount entirely in the past, and why they have not used the released sum.
The court was hearing a bunch of petitions, including one initiated suo motu , raising concerns over the high number of deaths at government hospitals in Nanded and Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar districts.
