On Thursday, the High Court of Delhi directed the Delhi Govt to treat as a representation a PIL alleging that the quarantine centre at Sultanpuri here for COVID-19 patients is "unhygienic", "uninhabitable" & lacks medical professionals to monitor them, & ordered it to take "immediate action" on the concerns raised in the plea.
A bench of Chief Justice D N Patel & Justice Jyoti Singh asked the Delhi Govt to take immediate action on the issues raised in the plea as early as possible & practicable.
With the direction, the Court disposed of the petition by a student of Jawaharlal Nehru University who has said in her plea that she tested COVID-19 positive while staying at the varsity campus & since there was no quarantine facility in there, she was transferred to the Sultanpuri Isolation Centre.
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The student had alleged that to her "utter shock" the quarantine centre was unhygienic & no facilities were given to the patients.
During her 4 day of stay at the centre, she had found that "patients at the quarantine facility were suffering severely not only on account of their illness but also due to the negligence of the government authorities in providing them with basic facilities like sanitation, food, medicines, clean mattresses & blankets, regular doctor visits, proper monitoring of oxygen, etc".
She had also alleged in her plea that "not a single person visits these wards, be it a doctor, nurse or any ward officials".
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"The patients manage everything on their own. No doctor or a nurse visits the patients to check their vitals, temperature & oxygen levels. All of them have to come to the ground floor of the building to get checked & to obtain basic medicines.
"Most of the time, the patients have to wait in a line, sometimes even for an hour in the scorching sun to obtain basic medicines..," the plea had alleged.
The petitioner had sought the appointment of a court commissioner to visit the quarantine facility at Sultanpuri & directions to the Delhi government "to follow the recommendation issued by WHO & the guidelines issued by NCDC for implementing quarantine".
Besides that the petitioner also seeks a clean & hygienic environment by sanitizing & disinfecting the premises, doctor visits thrice a day to the patients in their rooms, PPE kits for sanitation workers at the quarantine centres, periodic checking of oxygen levels of the patients & several other reliefs.
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