A division bench of the Bombay High Court, comprising Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice G.S. Kulkarni on Tuesday expressed satisfaction over the home vaccination guidelines issued by the state government’s task force.
Government lawyer Shastri said: “In deference to the order of June 14, members of the State Covid Task Force have duly applied their minds and have framed draft guidelines for ‘home vaccination’. A week’s time may be given to the Task Force to finalize the guidelines and to obtain the state government’s approval for implementation.”
The court noted: “We have read the draft guidelines. Prima-facie, we record our satisfaction of the Task Force having proceeded in the right direction.”
The court further said; “We, however, leave it to the wisdom of the Task Force to incorporate such measures as would ultimately benefit the elderly and the disabled citizens, in whose interest such guidelines have been conceived. We also hope and trust that by Tuesday next, when we propose to take up this PIL petition next, the state government would be in a position to apprise us on how it proposes to go forward by initiating drives for ‘home vaccination’.”