Allahabad : Allahabad High Court It has been recognized that if a person admitted to a hospital due to COVID-19 dies during treatment, it should be treated as a death of COVID, even if the immediate cause is cardiac arrest or any other organ failure. be slack.
The dependents of any such deceased person will be eligible for the ex-gratia amount already prescribed by the Government. Accepting the writ petitions filed by Kusum Lata Yadav and several others, a division bench of Justice Attau Rehman Masoodi and Justice Vikram D Chauhan directed the state authorities to release the ex-gratia payment to the dependents of the COVID victims within a period of one month. .
The petitioners challenged Clause 12 of the Government Order dated June 1, 2021 primarily on the ground that it provides for a limitation, which restricts the payment of compensation only if death occurs within 30 days.
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