Ground realities and not control rooms can help fight corona: Sukhbir to CM
Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Singh Badal said that the Congress government had failed miserably in handling the COVID-19 pandemic with Punjab recording the highest fatality rate in the country. Also, he asked chief minister, Captain Amarinder Singh, to take stock of the situation on the ground instead of trying to control it through remote from the comfort of his farmhouse.
Stating that it was condemnable that Punjab had surpassed Maharashtra and Gujarat by recording a fatality rate of 2.95 percent with 2,150 casualties, the SAD President said senior leaders in other States were camping in worst affected areas to grapple with the crisis.
“Chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh however only believes in rattling off statistics about coming deaths instead of coming out with solutions to forestall them. It is this attitude, which also witnessed crores being spent on a self-proclamatory Mission Fateh propaganda exercise, which has spelled doom for Punjab and Punjabis”.
Sukhbir Badal said the Congress government’s strategy to counter COVID had been criticized by its own Health Advisor Dr. K K Talwar who had indicted the government for not conducting contact tracing of COVID positive cases in July and for failure to manage micro-containment zones.
“It is because of these failures that more than one thousand persons died due to COVID in August and now ten districts of the State are recording cases in three figures. The situation is now getting out of control with the pandemic claiming eighty to a hundred persons every day”.
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Stating that the Congress government was yet to learn any lessons from its failures, Badal said the government was now engaging in propaganda about the supply of oxymeters to people instead of ensuring the supply of oxygen in both government and private hospitals.
-PTC News
