Cong.: Declare health emergency in state
AICC spokesperson Dr Sravan Dasoju on Monday urged Chief Minister K. Chandrshekar Rao to declare a health emergency in Telangana as the second wave of Covid19 is “killing large numbers of people due to lack of sufficient hospital beds, oxygen and scarcity of life saving drugs in the state.”
In an open letter to the chief minister, the Congress leader called for necessary steps to revamp the health care system to make Telangana a role model. “This can effectively check the spread of the Covid-19 as also similar situations in future.”
He criticised KCR for keeping the health ministry with him now and making it “inaccessible to the common man.”
The Congress leader said the people are unable to get Remdesivir injections unless the ‘de facto CM’ intervened and helped the needy through Twitter. “Instead, buy life-saving drugs by investing `100 crore and distribute them through army canteens to avoid any black marketing,” he said.
Sravan urged the CM to set up a 24/7 Covid-19 war room at state as also in districts and constitute a special task force headed by the CM, health minister, doctors, industrialists, officials, NGOs and resident welfare associations (RWA) to provide guidance and direction.
According to him, CM has paid attention only to “lopsided fantasies” and was pursuing avoidable obsessions like building ultra-modern Secretariat buildings by use of thousands of crores. The CM focused on winning elections rather than anticipating the need for ramping up the health infrastructure and protecting the people, he alleged.
Hailing the contributions of Dr Kakarla Subbar Rao who transformed NIMS Hospital into a world-class super specialty hospital, Dr Sravan urged the CM to appoint a doctor or a health care professional as the new health minister of Telangana to lead this department at this crucial juncture.
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ACCORDING TO him, the CM has paid attention only to “lopsided fantasies” and was pursuing avoidable obsessions like building ultramodern Secretariat buildings by use of thousands of crores. The CM focused on winning elections rather than anticipating the need for ramping up health infra