Bilaspur : The Chhattisgarh High Court has directed the state government to pay a Rs 2 lakh compensation to the parents of a newborn after staff at a public hospital in Raipur disclosed the mother’s HIV-positive status in violation of confidentiality protocols.

The HC, during a previous hearing, cited a news report which said a poster was placed by government hospital ‘s staff near the child’s bed stating that the baby’s mother was HIV-positive, and termed the entire episode as “inhuman and unethical”.

A division bench of Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Bibhu Datta Guru passed the order on the matter on Wednesday (October 15), observing the hospital authorities failed to maintain confidentiality.

It said, “..since the identity of the newly born child has been disclosed, and pr

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