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Frontline Health Worker Entitled To PM Garib Kalyan Package Compensation Even If Posted At Non-Notified Hospital: Bombay High Court
['Narsi Benwal']
Supreme Court - High Court - Legal Breaking News | Live Law India
"Observing and terming the compensation scheme only to be meant for such health workers who were working in such hospitals/places which were requisitioned for Covid-19 treatment shall, in our opinion frustrate the benevolent scheme of compensation itself.
The bench noted that the deceased Rekha was undisputedly working in the Police Hospital Sangli by an Order specifically during the Covid period.
It is but obvious that deceased Rekha contracted Covid-19 infection while she was on duty there," the bench noted.
It further noted that a State appointed Committee had come up with this 'category' of hospitals, mandating that the hospital, where a health worker served must be 'enlisted' as a Covid treatment centre.
Obviously, the health staff at such preliminary units was susceptible to covid infection at par with the those working at categorised covid centres.