Govt has failed to control virus spread, allege Congress MLAs

Chandigarh, May 15

Former Chief Minister and Leader of Opposition Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Wednesday covened a meeting of the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) to discuss the raging Covid pandemic where MLAs expressed deep concern over the black marketing of medical goods, slow vaccination, lack of medicines, oxygen and testing.

The MLAs alleged that the government had completely failed to control the pandemic. They expressed the view that things were getting worse daily as the infection was now spreading rapidly into the village of the state.

Many legislators said hospitals in the cities and health centres in villages were facing a heavy shortage of equipment and staff. In the absence of hospital beds, treatment, medicines and oxygen, the victims of Covid and other diseases were dying in large numbers, a press statement issued here said.

Hooda expressed his anguish over the state of medical facilities in the rural areas of the state. — TNS

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