File affidavit over infants’ death at RIMS: HC to government

The Telangana High Court directed the State government to file an affidavit explaining the steps taken to improve infrastructure and other facilities following the death of five infants in a recent fire accident Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences at Adilabad.

“We want complete details.” said the Acting Chief Justice P. Sam Koshy. The Acting CJ, along with Justice Suddala Chalapathi Rao, was hearing a PIL petition over strengthening the infrastructure at government hospitals in the State in compliance with a verdict of Supreme Court. Senior counsel Chikkudu Prabhakar, counsel for the PIL petitioner K.A. Sri Guru Teja, requested the bench to pass appropriate orders in the matter in the backdrop of lives of fine infants being snuffed out in the government hospital due to fire accident.