Friday, 07 May 2021 | PNS | Dehradun
Says govt is in sleeping mode, health system on ventilator
The Uttarakhand unit of Congress party organised a protest outside the Rajiv Bhawan here on Thursday against what it termed complete failure of the state government in tackling the pandemic of Covid-19. Speaking on the occasion the Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) president Pritam Singh said that the Congress party is ready to help the state government in the ongoing battle with the disease but the Uttarakhand government has gone into a sleeping mode. “The government is neither seeing the pain of people nor it has any intention to improve the health system which is on ventilator itself,’’ he said.
The PCC president claimed that the hospitals are facing acute shortage of beds, ventilators and life saving machines and the black marketing is going on right under the nose of the government. Holding the government responsible for deaths in the state due to Covid-19, he said the patients are losing their lives due to lack of oxygen in hospitals. The hospitals do not have medical staff, things have gone out of control but the lackadaisical attitude of government persists, he said.
The PCC president said that the number of new cases of Covid- 19 is increasing alarmingly and the death rate in the state is higher than the national average. He said that the BJP government is trying to find opportunity in disaster by increasing the power tariff.
