File picture of Congress chief Rahul Gandhi. (PTI)
Congress common secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra additionally hit out on the authorities, alleging scarcity of beds through the second wave of coronavirus and requested why did it not improve well being services and as an alternative is carrying ahead the central vista undertaking.
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- Last Updated:June 05, 2021, 22:57 IST
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Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Saturday alleged that the federal government’s vaccine distribution has inequalities and isn’t honest. “I’ve been saying that the vaccines needs to be procured by the Centre and distributed by the states.
“In the absence of a good coverage for vaccine distribution, the inequality within the Modi authorities’s coverage will give such outcomes,” he said citing a media report highlighting the inequalities in vaccine distribution. The report claims that nine private hospitals got 50 per cent and six cities 80 per cent of Covishield and Covaxin stocks and alleged disparities in vaccine distribution. Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra also hit out at the government, alleging shortage of beds during the second wave of coronavirus and asked why did it not upgrade health facilities and instead is carrying forward the central vista project.
“In January, when the Prime Minister was making false declarations of ‘winning the war against corona’, the number of oxygen beds in the country was reduced by 36 percent, the number of ICU beds by 46 percent and the number of ventilator beds by 28 per cent,” she mentioned in a tweet in Hindi. “He ignored the recommendation to enhance well being services. Who is accountable,” she requested.
She also asked why did the government ignore the advice of experts and from its own Parliamentary Committee on Health and did nothing to fulfil the promise of upgraded medical facilities in every district. “Why has not even a single new AIIMS become functional since 2014, while the Central Vista project, declared an ‘essential service’ moved at lightening speed? Is the prime minister’s vanity project more important than providing hospital beds to the public,” she additionally requested.
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