new delhi the delhi high court hc ruled that medical claim of a government employee for reimbursement of treatment undertaken in emergency should not be denied merely because the hospital was not empanelled with the central government health scheme cghsa division bench of justices v kameswar rao and anoop kumar mendiratta observed that the test would be to see whether the claimant had actually undertaken the treatment in an emergency as advised and if this contention is supported by recordspreservation of human life is of paramount importance the state is under an obligation to ensure timely medical treatment to a person in need of such treatment and a negation of the same would be a violation of article 21 of the constitution the bench said in a judgment dated may 10it made the observations while dismissing a plea moved by the central government challenging an order passed by the central administrative tribunal directing it to reimburse a retired pensioner employed as a senior carpenter with the government for the balance amount incurred by him due to emergency medical treatment for trigeminal neuralgia at the vimhans hospital in delhi which was not empanelled with cghsthe bench said denial of such medical claim by authorities only adds to the misery of the government servant by forcing such individual to resort to courts the respondent the centre submitted that the treatment was undertaken by the pensioner at a nonempanelled hospital on his own volition and thus he was not entitled to reimbursement as per policy