Recently, a public interest litigation was filed in the Bombay High Court seeking a direction to Maharashtra state government, among others, to ensure that “those reliant on the public health system for non-Covid health services” are also able to access these services for Covid care after “enlisting/sequestering private health facilities" by the government.
The petition, filed by the Jan Swasthya Abhiyan, the Indian chapter of the global People’s Health Movement, emerged out of a growing demand for the country to rope in more private healthcare facilities to fight Covid-19. The organisation made this demand in Madhya Pradesh as well, urging the state to take over private hospitals to tackle the pandemic.
