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The Min­istry of Health has been giv­en 42 days in which to re­con­sid­er a re­quest to dis­close in­for­ma­tion re­lat­ed to a probe in­to the il­le­gal im­por­ta­tion of a pre­scrip­tion drug that caused eight cit­i­zens to go blind af­ter it was ad­min­is­tered.

Ap­pel­late Judges Prakash Moo­sai, Mi­ra Dean-Ar­mour­er, and Eleanor Don­ald­son-Hon­ey­well made the or­der on Mon­day as they up­held an ap­peal from po­lit­i­cal and so­cial ac­tivist De­vant Ma­haraj over the par­tial dis­missal of his law­suit chal­leng­ing the min­istry’s re­fusal to dis­close some of the re­quest­ed in­for­ma­tion.

In set­ting the dead­line, Jus­tice Dean-Ar­mour­er sought to high­light the sig­nif­i­cant pub­lic in­ter­est in the case.