Book CM, ministers for Covid deaths: AAP

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, May 13

The Aam Aadmi Party today said Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Punjab Government were playing politics on ventilators purchased through PM Cares Fund.

AAP said Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh, Health Minister Balbir Singh Sidhu and Medical Education Minister OP Soni were responsible for the deaths due to non-availability of ventilators and other health services in the state and a case of murder under Section 302 of the IPC should be registered against all of them.

AAP legislator Kultar Singh Sandhwan said the deaths of Covid patients in Punjab were due to the non-availability of ventilators which were to be provided by the state government. He said he had taken up the matter with the government on September 8, 2020, against the poor quality ventilators sent through PM Cares Fund. The matter was also taken up at a high-level meeting held on March 5, 2021, at Baba Farid Medical College which was attended by the Medical Education Minister along with senior officers. He said during the meeting it was informed 14 ventilators were not working properly. He demanded that instead of fixing these ventilators, the government should arrange new and better quality ventilators.