Ahmednagar hospital fire: Shiv Sena targets both Maharashtra and Centre
The Hindu
It, however, doesn’t want the incident ‘politicised’
The Shiv Sena on Monday called for the not to be ‘politicised’. It, however, targeted both the ruling tripartite Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) coalition (of which it is a part of) as well as the Central Government over the incident, where 11 COVID-19 patients, mostly senior citizens, lost their lives.
In an editorial in its mouthpiece, Saamana, the Sena, which shares power with the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and the Congress and has its president Uddhav Thackeray as Chief Minister, said the upkeep of the public health system was the responsibility of both the State and Central Governments. The NCP holds the Health portfolio.
It pointed out that several COVID-19 patients had lost their lives in similar hospital fire tragedies across the State in Gondia, Nashik, Mira-Bhayandar and Vasai-Virar among others over the last two years. The editorial demanded that the Government tell the public as to what concrete steps it planned to take to prevent such accidents.