PIL: Offer home vax services to advanced seniors in Mumbai

Mumbai:

City lawyers

,

Dhruti Kapadia and Kunal Tiwari

, filed a public interest litigation (PIL) before

Bombay high court

to seek a Central policy to provide Covid jabs to “advanced age senior citizens, specially abled and medically challenged’’ by offering door-to-door vaccination services in the “interest of natural justice’’. The PIL may come up for urgent hearing on April 5.

The plea seeks a helpline to enable the elderly to book vaccination appointments for home visits. It also wants the HC to direct the state to arrange for ambulances to ferry citizens above the age of 75, those who are differently abled and unable to visit the centres. The PIL suggests that authorities could charge around Rs 500 for the service. A similar plea by the BMC to the state was declined due to lack of policy. tnn