Chandigarh: While the Punjab Government is already dealing with infighting because the MLAs and MPs should not happy with the working of the Capt Amarinder Singh authorities, one other problem has introduced the state beneath the scanner.
After studies of the Punjab authorities’s transfer to promote Covaxin procured beneath the state quota to personal hospitals to make a revenue of ₹660 per dose within the identify of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Punjab’s opposition get together SAD on Thursday accused the state’s Congress authorities of diverting Covid vaccines to personal hospitals at hefty margins.
Further, the personal hospital earnings ₹500 per shot because the buyer pays ₹1,560 for every jab.
Shiromani Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Singh Badal, in an announcement, alleged that vaccine doses weren’t accessible within the state however they have been being offered to personal establishments as an alternative of being given freed from price to the widespread man.
He claimed {that a} Covaxin dose costing Rs 400 to the state was being offered to personal establishments at Rs 1,060.
He stated the personal hospitals are additional charging individuals Rs 1,560 for every dose.
This quantities to a price of Rs 6,000 to Rs 9,000 per household for a single dose .
Badal alleged that in Mohali alone, 35,000 doses have been offered to personal establishments to earn a revenue of practically Rs two crore in a single day.
He stated it was immoral for the Congress authorities to make a revenue from the sale of vaccines.
Badal alleged that the state authorities is punishing the individuals by forcing them to cough up Rs 1,560 per dose throughout a time of financial slowdown.
The Akali Dal chief additionally raised questions over Rahul Gandhi who has been demanding free vaccines from the centre because the begin and requested if he helps the Punjab authorities’s transfer to pressure the widespread man to pay Rs 1,560 per dose.
Badal demanded a excessive court-monitored probe into how the Congress authorities was allegedly creating a man-made scarcity of vaccines for the widespread man by promoting its doses at a hefty revenue to personal hospitals, the SAD stated in an announcement.
