“Ram Rajya laane wali sarkar khud Ram bharose hai,” shouted Anurag Sharma, a BJP worker whose father tested positive for COVID on Tuesday but could not be admitted to a hospital despite all efforts made by Sharma.
“The oxygen level has gone down. Please admit my father even in private hospital. I will pay the fee,” he told Lucknow CMO Sanjay Bhatnagar on telephone. “I do not have money but will arrange for it. I will sell my land in the village and get money. I need to save my father’s life,” he told the CMO.
Being in BJP and working on an ad hoc in the party office, he is in touch with some senior leaders. “A few leaders assured me that they will help and I believe they might have called up concerned officials too, but till now, I am yet to get a hospital bed for my father,” he said.
Sharma’s case is not an isolated case. There are thousands of COVID patients across Uttar Pradesh who are struggling to get hospital beds and life-saving medicines. When someone succumbs to the disease, their relatives are forced to queue up at crematoriums or burial grounds for several hours to perform the last rites.
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No shortage of beds, claims CM Yogi Adityanath
UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has said that there is no shortage of beds and oxygen for COVID patients in all 75 districts of the state. “We have sufficient beds and more non-COVID hospitals are turning into Covid hospitals. Even private hospitals dedicated for COVID treatment cannot refuse to admit patients,” he said in a meeting.
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In this dire situation, even getting medicines for patients who are in home isolation is proving to be a tough task. Either the medicine is not available in the open market or if it is there, it is available at a premium.
All medicines available, insists Chief Secretary R K Tiwari
Chief Secretary R K Tiwari claims that there is a sufficient supply of Remdisivir. On the CM’s initiative, 25,000 vials were flown to Lucknow from Ahmedabad on Wednesday, he insisted, adding that there was no hoarding of medicines and all life saving drugs are easily available in the market.
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As people are neither getting medical care nor medicines, there is a spike in the number of fatalities because of COVID. On Wednesday, UP recorded 61 deaths while it shot up to 108 on Thursday. This has led to people queuing up at cremation grounds and graveyards to perform the last rites of their family members who have succumbed to COVID.
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There’s enough wood now, say Nagar Nigam officials
Nagar Nigam officials said in Lucknow that though earlier there was a shortage of wood in cremation grounds, the problem has been solved. “A portion of the cremation ground has been covered to separate it from non-COVID cremation,” Municipal Commissioner Ajay Dwivedi claimed with regard to installation of corrugated tin sheets.
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