Post Date: Friday, June 14, 2019
Date: 21.05.2019
Baksa District will finally get blood bank thanks to a PIL filed by a Guwahati High Court Advocate Alin Mahanta with support from Human rights law network (HRLN).
Guwahati High court on Tuesday directed the state government to run a blood bank at the civil hospital in Baksa district. The state government on Monday informed the court that it had got the license from the Centre on May to operate a blood bank.
A PIL which was filed in 2016, was a result of an RTI filed by Mahanta to ascertain which districts in Assam had required blood bank facilities. In the PIL she had mentioned the failure to provide blood transfusion to pregnant women in Baksa district and the non-implementation of Indian Public Health Standards’ blood storage requirements in hospitals and health centres in the districts.
“We are thankful to the court for looking into this matter. people in Baksa will now have a blood bank in their district,” HRLN member Debasmita Ghosh said.
The PIL also mentions the absence of basic facility requirements which was in violation of Article 14, 15 and 21 of the Constitution and of an international obligation under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women and the International Convention on Economic Social and Cultural Rights.
The RTI said that only Baksa and Udalgiri districts lacked blood banks.
A different PIL for Udalgiri was filed by HRLN in 2016.
A fact-finding team from HRLN in March found that the basic infrastructure with proper equipment had been set up in the Udalgiri blood bank.
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The link to the order:
Litigation
- Presentations from the Two Day Webinar on Reproductive Rights on 23rd & 24th of May, 2020
- Patna High Court: Ration facility for all transgender persons
- Nikhil Datar vs. Union of India: A long drawn struggle
- Patna High Court gives favourable order in response to the PIL on water logging in the state
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Fact Finding
- Presentations from the Two Day Webinar on Reproductive Rights on 23rd & 24th of May, 2020
- Report on the State level Consultation in Arunachal Pradesh on 2nd & 3rd November, 2019
- Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights Dictionary
News
- Report of the two day webinar on ‘Access to Reproductive Justice’ on 23rd & 24th May, 2020
- Report of the National level consultation on Trans people and women’s issues- 28th & 29th December, 2019
- Nikhil Datar vs. Union of India: A long drawn struggle