The state health department has issued a GR and formed a grievance redressal committee to address grievances of people whose family members died due to Covid-19, so that they can claim a compensation of Rs 50,000 as per the submission made by the Central government to the apex court. However, relatives of frontline doctors are not keen to claim Rs 50,000, stating that the government should honour its promise of paying Rs 50 lakh to next of kin of frontline warriors.

Taterao Bhosale, 28, brother of Latur-based paediatrician Dr Dnyaneshwar Bhosale, who lost his life battling Covid-19, said, “My brother was to start a paediatric neonatal care unit in our village. But before that could happen, he died due to Covid-19. He had taken a loan of Rs 20 lakh from two banks for vehicles and for construction of the hospital. Neither do we have the Rs 50 lakh as promised by the government, nor we have the money to repay the bank loan.”