Thiruvananthapuram: The big difference in the number of Covid deaths in the official registration data and number released by the Ministry of Health, has captured the government in the legs with the remaining ministers justifying related questions in assembly.
While Health Minister Veena George got rid of records listed in accordance with the Civil Registration System (CRS) as “Study”, Minister LSG MV Govindan Master, on the other hand, has contrary to his own reply in an effort to install weak defense for data incompatibility.
On August 4, the Minister of Health, said in the Assembly that the death was confirmed based on WHO and ICMR guidelines and the government had not analyzed “studies” carried out by local bodies.
TI previously received information through RTI on Covid’s death registration from the office of the registrar of the head of the birth and death where the information was collected for the civil registration system.
There are more than 6,000 differences in the number of deaths recorded by the LSG and the Ministry of Health.
On July 28, Veena George said the local body did not have data on Covid death and that the information was only available for the total number of deaths.
He buried the fact that the registration process tracked Covid’s death.
This is then confirmed in a report released by the Indian commissioner and census registrar.
In accordance with the latest annual reports on vital statistics released by the Panitaris General Offices of Indian commissioners and census, CRS has been computerized in Kerala using software developed by Kerala information mission.
CRS can be defined as an integrated process of continuous recording, permanent, mandatory and universal of its vital events and characteristics, according to legal requirements in this country.
This provides the best source of information about the vital level at all levels, this report shows, adding that Kerala is one of the 19 states that have reached 100% of the registration of death, according to the 2019 Vital Statistics Report.
After data incompatibility is threatened to erode the credibility of the state government , Minister LSG MV Govindan continued to conflict with the Assembly.
On June 7, Teacher Govindan told the Assembly that special provisions were included in the software to record Covid’s death from May 4 and before May, Covid’s death was recorded in the option that was symbolized as ‘someone else’.
On July 28, the same day when the Minister of Health pretended to be ignorant about data separate from Covid’s death in the local body, he made U-turn by saying that the local body did not keep Covid’s death records and that it was an audit health department , Such death.
MLA P T Thomas, who has asked questions about the difference in numbers in assembly says violations of notice of privileges are likely to be transferred to the Minister of Health to mislead the Assembly.
“By referring to the registration process as a” study “, the Minister of Health tried to escape the question.
There has been a clear effort to misinterpret the facts in assembly,” he said.
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