COVID-19 crisis in Madhya Pradesh | Kamal Nath says it’s ‘criminal negligence’
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Talking to reporters in Bhopal, the senior Congress chief additionally alleged under-reporting of COVID-19 deaths in Madhya Pradesh.
Former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath on Thursday accused the BJP authorities in the State of mismanaging the COVID-19 crisis and termed it as “criminal negligence” on a part of the administration.
Talking to reporters in Bhopal, the senior Congress chief additionally alleged under-reporting of COVID-19 deaths in Madhya Pradesh. The State authorities has denied such allegations. Mr. Nath claimed hospitals in the State don’t have any beds, injections, oxygen, medicines and ambulances.
“I want to know from Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan about a single hospital where all these facilities are available. It is total criminal negligence,” Mr. Nath stated.
The State authorities ought to have taken be aware of the second wave of COVID-19 in advance, however it didn’t gauge the state of affairs, he stated.
He additionally claimed the precise variety of COVID-19 deaths in the State was being hidden and that the figures have been a lot larger than the official statistics.
M.P. Home Minister Narottam Mishra on Tuesday denied that there was underreporting of COVID-19 deaths in the State.
Kamal Nath stated throughout his interplay with the Congress district presidents, he was instructed the coronavirus had entered villages and no testing amenities have been accessible there.
“The tests are not being conducted and even if they are done, then the reports are not being declared even in three days. By that time, there is a chance of such people spreading the infection among others,” he stated.
Mr. Nath additionally alleged that Remdesivir injections (key anti-viral drug) have been being given by BJP leaders “to their own people”, as a substitute of members of most people affected by COVID-19.
Even vaccines are usually not accessible in the State and persons are dealing with lot of issues in getting the jabs regardless of the State authorities making “tall claims” about it, he stated.
Government officers must be despatched to oxygen crops and drug producers to get these important medical provides for the folks, however “Principal Secretaries were sitting in Bhopal and doing nothing”, he stated.
“The mismanagement has been criticised in the international media across the world…the government should focus on managing the crisis instead of managing headlines in the media,” Mr. Nath stated.
On Wednesday, Madhya Pradesh reported 12,758 recent circumstances of coronavirus, taking the an infection rely to five,38,165, whereas 105 deaths pushed the State’s fatality rely to five,424, as per official information.
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