Shahjahanpur: A gaggle of individuals camped under a ‘peepal’ (sacred fig) tree right here after allegedly being refused admission in a hospital, believing that it emits the next degree of oxygen.
Around half-a-dozen individuals had unfold their beds under the tree together with their sufferers, in response to Ravindra Maurya, whose sister additionally took shelter.
However, the chief medical officer stated just one coronavirus-positive individual was discovered on the spot in Tilhar space — 25 km from the district headquarters — and the affected person had been hospitalised. He claimed that there was no scarcity of oxygen.
Roshan Lal Verma, the BJP MLA from Tilhar, stated on Saturday that he went to the spot after getting info that some individuals have been tenting under the tree resulting from scarcity of oxygen.
“As I went near the tree, I saw eight-nine people spreading their beds. Some people fled after seeing me, thinking that police will come, arrest them and send them to jail,” Verma informed PTI.
These individuals had gone to the medical school, however they weren’t admitted there. Therefore, they unfold their beds under the sacred fig tree, in response to the BJP chief.
“These people are staying under the tree for the past five-six days,” he stated.
In a purported video, a person and a girl who’re sitting on a mattress is attending to a lady who appears to be sick. The man can also be waving a hand fan on the teenager.
“We were sitting under the tree as it releases huge amount of oxygen. The other patients who were sitting with us had low oxygen level,” Maurya informed PTI over cellphone.
He stated the Health Department had took his sister for COVID testing and he or she examined unfavorable.
But regardless of this, she was admitted to a COVID ward, following which they determined to take shelter under the tree, Maurya alleged.
Verma claimed that he had tried to contact Shajahanpur MLA and Medical Education Minister Suresh Khanna, however to no avail.
“Even today, he (Khanna) did not receive the call. After this, when the entire matter was briefed to District Magistrate Indra Vikram Singh, he took it seriously and sent an ambulance to the spot,” Verma stated.
When contacted, Chief Medical Officer S P Gautam stated, “On getting the information, we had sent a team, which could find only one person there. He tested positive for COVID-19 and was hospitalised.”
“We have enough oxygen available with us,” Gautam claimed.
“People who want to stay in their houses and get their treatment done there, giving them oxygen is not possible. But patients admitted in the hospitals are being given oxygen,” the official added.
