File photograph of Congress chief Rahul Gandhi.
Congress chief Rahul Gandhi shared a graph exhibiting an increase in unemployment among the many youth since 2014 and raised the problem “shortage” of medication to deal with black fungus.
- PTI New Delhi
- Last Updated:June 01, 2021, 17:07 IST
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Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the antagonistic GDP and unemployment figures and raised the problem of “shortage” of medication for treating black fungus. “PM’s hall of shame – Minimum GDP, Maximum Unemployment,” he mentioned on Twitter and shared a graph exhibiting an increase in unemployment among the many youth since 2014.
His remarks got here a day after knowledge launched by the National Statistical Office (NSO) confirmed that India’s financial system contracted by 7.3 p.c within the fiscal 12 months ended March 2021 after the expansion charge picked up within the fourth quarter, simply earlier than the world’s worst outbreak of coronavirus infections hit the nation. The gross home product (GDP) in Asia’s third-largest financial system grew by 1.6 p.c within the January-March interval, up from 0.5 p.c within the earlier quarter when India started pulling out of a steep pandemic-induced recession within the earlier six months.
Gandhi additionally posed inquiries to the central authorities on mucormycosis or “black fungus epidemic”. “What is being done about the shortage of drug Amphotericin B? What is the procedure for helping the patient get this medicine,” he mentioned on Twitter.
“Instead of providing treatment, why is the Modi government embroiling the public in formalities,” he additionally requested, however didn’t elaborate. After hundreds of circumstances of black fungus have been reported amongst COVID-19 sufferers within the nation, the Centre on May 20 urged all states and union territories to declare it as a notifiable illness underneath the Epidemic Diseases Act to make sure obligatory surveillance to sort out the “new challenge”.
The authorities had mentioned that the scarcity of Amphotericin B scarcity might be resolved quickly as 5 extra pharma firms have gotten new drug approval for producing it in India, along with the present six pharma firms.
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