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Completely false, says Delhi Health Minister on Centre's 'no oxygen deaths' claim
By: TP News
Date: 7/21/2021 3:18:27 PM
New Delhi :Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain on Wednesday said there have been many deaths due to oxygen shortage in Delhi and many other places across the country.
"If there was no shortage of oxygen, why did hospitals move court? Hospitals and the media had been flagging oxygen shortage issues daily. Television channels showed that how hospitals were running out of life-saving gas. It is completely false to say that no one died due to oxygen shortage. There have been many deaths due to oxygen shortage in Delhi and many other places across the country," he said.
On Tuesday, the Centre told the Rajya Sabha that no deaths due to lack of oxygen were “specifically reported” by states and union territories during the second COVID-19 wave that hit the country.
Shortly after the statement by the Centre was made in a written reply by the Minister of State for Health Bharati Pravin Pawar, AICC General Secretary KC Venugopal accused the minister of having "misled" the house. Describing the statement as "condemnable", Venugopal, a Rajya Sabha MP to whose question the reply was given, said he will move a privilege motion against the minister.
"In every state and in Delhi also, we have seen how many patients died due to lack of oxygen we know. Actually, the minister misled the House.
I will move a privilege(motion) against the minister definitely because she misguided and misled the House by giving false information to the House," Venugopal told reporters.