Judgment

THAKKAR, J. : - Reasons, good and substantial, exist for directing the petitioner to approach the concerned High Court in the first instance instead of knocking at the doors of this Court straightway. And these need to be spelled out.

2. An illustration may tell more effectively, what otherwise may not be told as effectively. and perhaps, only with some embarrassment. Suppose there is only one National Hospital established especially for performing open-heart surgery which cannot be performed elsewhere in any of the eighteen Regional Hospitals. What will happen to the patients needing such surgery, if the National Hospital which alone is specially equipped for this type of surgery, throws its doors wide open also for patients suffering from other ailments who can be treated by any and every one of the eighteen Regional Hospitals ? More particularly when the patients already admitted for such surgery by the National Hospital are already lying unattended to on its floors. and in its corridors. for an unconscionably long time ? Showing sympathy for a patient with other than a heart problem who can also be treated equally effectively, and perhaps much more quickly, may well cons