New Delhi: “Sat Yaad Rakh Jaega” (everything will be remembered) said Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday, hit the central government after saying no Covid-19 deaths reported due to lack of oxygen.
Taking to Twitter, Gandhi shares videos about “the truth of the lack of oxygen” who said “The Indian government failed to protect the right to life and health in the second wave of Covid-19 pandemic.” Furthermore showed pictures of people who are waiting in a long queue to recharge the oxygen cylinder and an article about the Goa Hospital where 75 people allegedly died due to lack of supply of oxygen.
The center, while answering the question by MP member KC Venugopal, on Tuesday told Rajya Sabha that there was no death because lack of oxygen had been reported specifically by the States and the United States during the second covid wave.
In a written reply, the Minister of State for Health Dr.
Bharati Pravin Pawar stated that health was the subject of the country and therefore all countries, reported cases and deaths to the Ministry of South Health regularly.
The Bharatiya Janata Party, meanwhile, defended a statement that the center only collected data on Covid-19 death, it did not produce it.
“Health is the subject of the country and there is no state or union area that sends data about death, specifically due to lack of oxygen,” said BJP spokesman Sambit Patra on Wednesday.
Some opposition leaders extensively criticized the statement center.
Sanjay Raut Sanjay Shiv Sena said the government lied.
Health Minister Delhi Satyendar Jain said the ‘fully wrong’ statement and asked why the hospital went to the High Court to lack if there was no death due to lack of oxygen.
Party and Congress Telugu Desam also denied central claims and said at least 30 people had died in Andhra Pradesh due to shortcomings.
The government’s answer came after the second Covid-19 wave devastated that defeated the state health care infrastructure and resulted in thousands of deaths every day.
The Covid-19 case surged dangerously from April to June and peaked in May with more than 4-lakh cases and 4,000 deaths.
Hospitals throughout the country reported severe lack of oxygen for several days and private hospitals in the national capital approaching the High Court demanding a stable supply.
Some hospital administration in various states has alleged that the lack of oxygen causes the death of some patients.