Bengaluru: A Division Bench of the Karnataka High Court comprising Chief Justice Abhay Shreeniwas Oka and Justice Aravind Kumar has observed that the State Government cannot discriminate between the 24 COVID patients who died due to oxygen shortage in the first week of May.
The High Court was hearing the compensation issue yesterday where Advocate General Prabhuling K. Navadagi submitted that it had been decided to pay an ex-gratia amount of Rs. 5 lakh to the families of three patients, who died between 10.30 pm on May 2 and 2.30 am on May 3.
