Uttar Pradesh BJP lawmakers write to Adityanath on oxygen shortage
The Hindu
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As the virulent second wave of COVID-19 cuts awidening swathe across Uttar Pradesh, not just Opposition leaders but lawmakers of the ruling party BJP are also flagging the shortage in oxygen supplies and the rise in cases due to the panchayat polls in the State. A number of legislators from the party have written to local officials and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath raising concerns about COVID-19 facilities in their constituencies. The State government led by Mr. Adityanath has continuously maintained there is no shortage of oxygen supply in any private or government hospital in Uttar Pradesh. BJP MLA from Gola Gokrannath in Lakhimpur Kheri, Arvind Giri, on Thursday wrote to the district magistrate urging him to not let people die due to shortage of oxygen and demanded that the facilities in the constituency be urgently ramped up with 25-30 beds, oxygen and supply of medicines. “In the past 10 days, hundreds of people including two dozen friends lost their lives due to lack of oxygen. This is the ground reality,” Mr. Giri wrote. Talking to The Hindu on Friday, the four-time MLA said work to supply oxygen was on and the situation was “serious.”More Related News