New Delhi: Congress General secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Saturday once again slammed the government for declaring early victory over Covid, asking -is Prime Minister’s new residence and new Parliament building more important than health facilities?
Questioning the government under her “Who is responsible” campaign, Priyanka Gandhi said that during the second wave of the Covid in India people faced acute shortage of ICU beds, hospital beds and oxygen.
Targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Priyanka Gandhi, who is Congress in-charge for Uttar Pradesh said, “The Prime Minister was engaged in fake publicity of victory over Covid when people of the country faced acute shortage of oxygen, ICU, Ventilator and hospital beds. But the government did not focus on that.”
Lashing out at the government, Priyanka Gandhi said that the Prime Minister in September last year had said that India has 2,27,972 oxygen beds. But it reduced by 36 per cent to 1,57,344, she said.
The Congress leader said that during the same period ICU beds witnessed a decline of 46 per cent from 66,638 to 36,008 and ventilator beds were reduced to 23,618 from 33,024, witnessing a decline of 28 per cent.
Citing the example of the national capital, she said that in July last year, Union Home Minister Amit Shah had inaugurated ITBP’s temporary medical centre with 10,000 beds. The ITBP centre was closed on February 7 this year.
She said, during the second wave of Covid, this medical centre was restricted but with only 2,000 beds.
