Shivani Pandey-
In a matter related to the collection of discarded blood samples of patients suffering from fever from different health centres, health laboratories and district hospitals in the State are to develop a diagnostic kit to ascertain Tiger Moth Disease from infectious viral fever.
Justice PB Suresh Kumar issued the order mentioning that “when someone is initiating innovative research, don’t try to obstruct it. We need more such research to happen.”
The petitioner, a Scientist working as the Project Coordinator of SIDBI Innovation and Cubation Centre at IIT, Kanpur in his petition stated that a significant number of fever epidemics were associated with the outbreak of tiger moths in the adult population during monsoon season in Kerela.
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The petitioner through his advocate, MT Suresh Kumar also stated that scientific analysis has proved that the body fluids and chitinous scales of tiger moths were found to be significantly toxic and inflammatory.
The advocate went on to say that albeit the petitioner had preferred representation wanting presentation and assistance to collect discarded blood samples of patients, no proper answer was ever given.
The petition zeroed in on the gravity of the matter and that he was compelled to submit the final clinically validated prototype for identifying tiger moth toxins in three months to the funding agency.
The Court denied the government pleader’s request for 1 month to answer and asked to respond in a few days keeping the gravity of the situation in mind.