After the central many states are claiming no deaths due to lack of oxygen on Wednesday. Chattisgarh’s Health Minister TS Singh Deo officially stated that his state has no records of death due to the oxygen shortage during the Covid-19 pandemic. He also accused the government of taking credit for all goods things and blaming the states for all bad things.
News agency ANI has quoted Deo saying, “It is true that no patient died due to the lack of oxygen in Chhattisgarh. Our state is an oxygen-surplus state. There could have been some issues regarding management, otherwise, there is no death due to lack of oxygen,” He further said, “At least they (Central government) admitted that health is a state subject. Otherwise, it appeared as if they are taking everything under their control. They take credit for all goods things and blame states for everything that is bad,”
Apart from Chattishgarh, Tamil Nadu’s health secretary J Radhakrishna also said on Tuesday that the state government ensured adequate availability of oxygen in both government and private hospitals and there was no death due to lack of the life-saving gas. He also informed the media that a team looked after the state’s oxygen supplies.
Besides Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar have no records of death due to oxygen shortage. The medical education minister Vishwas Sarang said “No deaths took place due to lack of oxygen in our state. Union health minister stated the same in Rajya Sabha. Even in Tamil Nadu, the health minister voiced the same opinion,” Speaking of Bihar Mangal Pandey said, “We received the Centre’s support and oxygen allocation was increased. We facilitated oxygen in all hospitals,” He also accused Congress saying it doesn’t want to help people. and only raises issues in Parliament.
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