Panaji, May 2 : Goa Pradesh Mahila Congress President Beena S Naik on Sunday said that BJP government should take the onus over the failure of Covid Vaccination Drive.
In a statement, she said Chief Minister Pramod Sawant and his Ministers & MLA’s should start administering Covid Vaccination for all from May 3 onwards or tender their resignations immediately owing moral responsibility for 1225+ deaths of helpless Goans and exposing the state to over 24,000 cases over the past year, telling lies to the people of Goa and failing to execute basic Covid protection duties.
The GPMC also demanded that the Goa Government should immediately open up the top two floors of South Goa District Hospital at Margao and add more Covid beds over there.
Slamming the State BJP and the state government for politicising Covid Vaccination drive in the State, Goa Pradesh Mahila Congress President said, “The announcement of free vaccination for 18+ during Municipal Elections was just a ‘political jumla’ to entice the 18-45 year voters. The Government was knowing it very well that it does not have vaccines, yet it kept on doing this drama that vaccination will begin on May 1.”
The GPMC President said, “The CM of Goa, on April 30th, first fooled the people by urging them not to rush to vaccination centres but seeing that the people were sincerely following protocols, he (the CM) announced later that the vaccination drive stands postponed. It was clear that Government was not prepared and equipped to handle vaccination drive.”
The Mahila Congress asked how had some private hospitals received vaccination stocks, while the government had zero stock of the vaccines to administer to the Goan people by the previously set date of May 1, 2021.
Ms Naik pointed out that Dr Pramod Sawant was the first one to announce that Goa had become a green zone last year itself even as Goa recorded the highest 54 deaths and over 3,000 new cases daily on an average just like his poster boy Prime Minister Narendra Modi who announced in World Economic Forum at Davos that India ha won over Covid.
She also pointed out “All this drama of Government over providing adequate hospital bed, providing oxygen enough has been exposed completely as Congress volunteers have been filling up the role of a failed and non-existent Govt.”
“Why is this Government trying to show inadequate beds and trying to do these adjustments when the top two floors of South Goa District Hospital are still not being put to any use? Is there a hidden agenda?,” the GPMC President asked.(UNI)