No Covid-19 deaths due to oxygen shortage in Gujarat hospitals: State health minister to Assembly
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Gujarat health minister Rushikesh Patel said in the state Assembly, "When the second wave of coronavirus took place, oxygen levels in infected persons started dropping. But, thanks to our preparations, I can say with full confidence that no patient died due to the shortage of oxygen in hospitals in the state."
Gandhinagar: No COVID-19 patient died due to shortage of medical oxygen in Gujarat hospitals as claimed by the opposition Congress, state health minister Rushikesh Patel told the Assembly on Tuesday.
In his address to the House on budgetary allocations for the Health Department, Patel also said Congress was misguiding the people as part of its strategy for the upcoming Assembly polls, expected to be held in December.
"The entire world has seen a pandemic after 100 years. When the second wave of coronavirus took place, oxygen levels in infected persons started dropping. But, thanks to our preparations, I can say with full confidence that no patient died due to the shortage of oxygen in hospitals in the state," said Patel.
"The Congress spread lies (that people died due to oxygen shortage). The opposition party is misleading the House as well as people of the state to get political mileage and win the 2022 Assembly elections. The BJP is not like them. Even when we were not in power, we used to think about the upliftment of the downtrodden," Patel claimed.
He also hit out at the Congress for blaming the 'Namaste Trump' event held in Ahmedabad for the spread of coronavirus. Former US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi had attended the event, which took place in February, 2020, a month before the nation went in a lockdown.
