COVID-19 Vaccine Shortage Is Due To Bad Planning And Strategy By Modi Govt: Priyanka Gandhi
Mumbai: Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Wednesday slammed the Centre for showing insensitivity towards people during the COVID-19 pandemic, saying when people are screaming for shortages of medical oxygen, medicines and hospital beds, the central leaders are seen laughing during election rallies.
“Even today they’re busy with campaigning. They are laughing from the stages (at rallies). People are crying, screaming for help, seeking oxygen, beds, medicines, and you’re going to huge rallies and laughing! How can you?” the Congress leader told in an interview with ANI.
“You had 8-9 months between first and second wave. Your own Serosurveys indicated that a second wave is imminent but you ignored it,” she added.
Hitting out at Central government for the shortage of oxygen cylinders in the hospitals, the Congress leader alleged that the shortage of medical oxygen was due to the lack of logistics she asked the government, Why they did not make arrangements when a second COVID-19 wave was likely to hit the country harder.
While adding that ” the government has failed to put in place a proper plan to battle the second wave of infections.”
“Why did it not make arrangements when a second wave was inevitable? The country is facing a shortage of oxygen because there was no strategy, this is the government’s failure and bad planning,” she added.
However, She asked the Prime Minister to act now as India is the biggest producer of Oxygen.
The Congress leader said, “India’s production capacity for oxygen is one of the largest in the world. Then why’s there a shortage? You had 8-9 months (between first and second wave), your own Serosurveys indicated that a 2nd wave is imminent, you ignored it.”
She further said, “You had time. Today, only 2000 trucks in India can transport oxygen. How tragic it is that oxygen is available but it’s not reaching where it should. 1.1 million Remdesivir injections were exported in the last 6 months. Today, we are facing a shortage.”
Meanwhile, Congress leader Randeep Surjewala also pinned the oxygen shortage blame on the Centre saying the government exported 9,294 metric tonnes of oxygen to foreign countries in the first three quarters of 2020-21.
(With ANI Inputs)
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