A city advocate, Siddharth Chandrashekhar is the petitioner in a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed in the Bombay High Court on May 19, calling for overall improvement of working conditions, family welfare benefits for medical personnel who are putting their life on the line fighting against Covid-19.

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The PIL advocate on record is Bruno Castellino and counsel is Anita Shekhar Castellino. Chandrashekhar, 34, said about his PIL, with the Union of India and Others as respondents, “It was the second wave that hit close to home. I witnessed friends in the medical field who contracted the virus, having at times, made to look for beds just like other people, to pay astronomical medical bills. All for what? For treating suffering patients? For putting their life on the line, along with that of their family at times.”