The Madras High Court on Friday observed that there were grievances all over the country that deaths due to the coronavirus disease may no...
The Madras High Court on Friday observed that there were grievances all over the country that deaths due to the coronavirus disease may not have been appropriately recorded, Live Law reported.
A bench of Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy said that accurate reporting of the toll would help in studies being undertaken to deal with a pandemic of this scale in future. The immediate concern, the judges said, was that families of those who died cannot get compensation from state and central government unless cause of death is attributed to Covid-19.
“Without attempting to go into the specialised domain of doctors and persons trained in such regard, it is elementary that the major ailment suffered by a person may result ultimately in the heart being attacked and the death due to such attack,” the court said. “However, the cause of the death in such a case may not be appropriately attributed to just a heart attack, but the underlying reason for the heart being attacked ought to be regarded as the real cause. So has it to be done in case of deaths triggered off by Covid-19, even if the person suffered from co-morbidities.”
The judges also raised concerns about the situation in Tamil Nadu. “As far...
