A affected person reportedly died in Katihar after the hospital workers failed to supply oxygen cylinder.
Patna:
A central crew is visiting Bihar right this moment to entry the state’s coronavirus preparedness amid the pandemic. The go to by the three-member crew led by Joint Secretary Lav Agarwal comes amid allegations of poor dealing with of the COVID-19 scenario by the Nitish Kumar authorities. The state reported over 1,700 instances on Saturday.
Several movies have been circulating on social media during which persons are complaining about insufficient amenities and negligence at state-run hospitals.
In Katihar, a affected person reportedly died at a hospital after the hospital workers failed to supply him oxygen cylinder.
RJD chief Tejashwi Yadav — who has been attacking Nitish Kumar over the dealing with of the disaster — right this moment shared a video of individuals complaining concerning the lack of medical doctors and nurses at a hospital in Siwan. A girl is seen mendacity unattended at a hospital mattress as her attendants name for assist.
“There is no doctor to attend to us. They just came, gave injection and left,” a voice within the background is heard saying within the video. Almost all of the beds within the ward had been empty.
Siwan is the hometown of state Health Minister Mangal Pandey.
Mr Yadav has beforehand accused the Chief Minister for “playing havoc with the lives of 12.6 crore Biharis” and accused him of valuing his picture over the lives of individuals within the state. “Bihar is heading towards becoming a global hotspot of the COVID-19 pandemic,” the RJD chief mentioned on Saturday, accusing the federal government of over the “low” variety of checks being performed.
“Nitishji is playing havoc with the lives of 12.6 crores Biharis. To avoid bad press, he is suppressing data. Is your image more important than the lives of our people, Mr Chief Minister,” he mentioned, warning lakhs of individuals would die if low testing ranges proceed.
According to the Bihar authorities’s newest figures, 24,967 individuals have examined optimistic for the virus as on July 17. Samples of 10,502 individuals had been collected over the past 24 hours, it mentioned. The state additionally reported a restoration fee of 63.17 per cent.
But Mr Yadav, the chief of opposition within the state legislative meeting, has claimed that state required to conduct 30,000-35,000 checks a day given the scale and inhabitants of Bihar.
If the required variety of checks are performed, 4,000- 5,000 instances can be detected daily, thus placing the state on the prime within the nation by way of the unfold of coronavirus, he claimed.
The Bihar authorities has nonetheless refuted the allegations of levelled by Tejashwi Yadav.
“Corona is a pandemic and people of Bihar knows that it is a difficult situation. The state government is sensitive to the issue (COVID-19) and is taking all measures to curb the infection. The doctors and health workers are putting their lives at risk to save people. But you (Tejashwi) can’t see it,” Bihar Minister and JDU chief Neeraj Kumar was quoted as saying by information company ANI.
However, it isn’t simply the Opposition that has questioned Nitish Kumar’s response to the disaster.
On Saturday, the Lok Janshakti Party, which is a part of alliance in Bihar, welcomed the centre’s resolution to ship a crew to evaluate the COVID-19 scenario in Bihar.
“The spiralling coronavirus cases in Bihar might soon lead to an explosive situation and has become a matter of concern for the people of the state. Keeping in view the circumstances, the Central Government has decided to send a team to Bihar so that the situation can be brought under control,” tweeted Mr Paswan.
The tweets by the LJP’s younger nationwide president got here simply hours after opposition chief Tejashwi Yadav known as the central crew’s go to as proof that the “Nitish Kumar government is manipulating COVID-19 numbers” within the state.
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