Vijayawada, May 11 : Telugu Desam Party National Spokesman K Pattabhi Ram on Tuesday demanded the YSRCP government in Andhra Pradesh to explain on why it had failed to maintain continuous oxygen supplies at the SVR Ruia Hospital in Tirupati to prevent Monday’s tragic death of over 11 Covid patients as per the official figures.
Mr. Pattabhi Ram termed it as ‘criminal negligence’ on the part of the Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy headed YSRCP regime for not taking timely steps to prevent the deaths of the patients due to oxygen shortage.
Not just at Tirupati, many more incidents took place in the last few days in which lots of patients died due to lack of oxygen supply in Vizianagaram, Anantapur, Kurnool, Hindupur and other places, he said.
Addressing a press conference here, the TDP leader said the prevailing situation would have been much worse in other hospitals in other parts of the state, when the well-equipped, more advanced Ruia Government Hospital itself had no proper facilities. Unfortunately, the relatives were becoming doctors and giving their own treatment to their patients as there was no medical care at the Ruia also, he lamented.
Mr. Pattabhi Ram demanded an explanation from Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy and his Advisor Sajjala Ramakrishna Reddy why their special control centre for oxygen supply has miserably failed to come to the rescue of the Ruia patients. The officials were not visiting the scene of tragedy and the doctors and nurses were running away from their duties.
The Chief Minister and his Advisor should take moral responsibility for these deaths, he said.
He deplored that Andhra Pradesh stood in the 28th place in the country in the administration of the first dose of Covid vaccination in the state. Only 10.86 percent of the above 45 years population was covered in the first dose.
This was as per the figures of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. But, the YSRCP government was continuing to give wrong figures to claim that AP was standing first in the Covid prevention measures, he said, and flayed the government for administering just 2,003 doses all over the state yesterday.(UNI)