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Pay relief to widow of pharmacist who died on Covid duty: HC to govt
The New Indian Express Jeypore
|April 20, 2025
THE Orissa High Court has ruled that the widow of a pharmacist on duty at a drug distribution centre in a government hospital who died due to Covid-19 infection is entitled to financial assistance.
The division bench of Chief Justice Harish Tandon and Justice BP Routray quashed a single judge's order rejecting her petition to declare her husband as Covid warrior.
Initially, E Meerabai Patro had applied for financial assistance mandated for Covid warrior after her husband Ashok Kumar Patro while serving as a pharmacist in the district headquarter hospital, Rayagada, died on September 11, 2020, due to Covid-19 infection. He was diagnosed with the virus and hospitalised on September 3, 2020.
This story is from the April 20, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Jeypore.
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