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Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar: Taking into account the report of the district civil surgeon and her chest X-ray, the Aurangabad Bench of Bombay High Court comprising Justice Arun Pednekar and Justice Vaishali Jadhav Patil has directed the compensation proposal for the COVID-19 warrior be sent by the district collector to the state government, with instructions for the government to decide on it within eight weeks.
Manda Gaikwad, a nurse at the Government Hospital in Ahilyanagar, passed away from COVID-19 while providing patient care. The government-announced compensation of ₹50 lakh for COVID-19 warriors had not been disbursed to her family. As a result, her husband filed a petition in the Aurangabad Bench of the Bombay High Court.
What was the petition about?
Gaikwad was assigned duty at Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth in Rahuri on March 31, 2021 to examine COVID-19 patients and provide them with medication. She contracted COVID-19 on April 30, 2021 and was brought to Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar for treatment. Her HR Cityscan score was 17.25. She was tested via RT-PCR on May 1, 2021, which initially returned negative. She passed away on May 5, 2021.
Her husband, Machhindra Gaikwad, submitted a proposal to the district collector to claim ₹50 lakh under the Prime Minister’s Garib Kalyan Yojana, as announced by the government. However, the district collector did not forward the proposal to the state government. Acting through Advocate Rahul Tambe, he filed a petition before the Bench, arguing that the HR score and the COVID-related report from the district civil surgeon had not been considered. The High Court subsequently issued the above-mentioned orders.