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‘No death due to lack of oxygen’: Health Ministry tells Rajya Sabha

'No death due to lack of oxygen': Health Ministry tells Rajya Sabha
'No death due to lack of oxygen': Health Ministry tells Rajya Sabha

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Ground Report | New Delhi: No death due to lack of oxygen; On the second day of the monsoon session of Parliament, there was a discussion regarding the Covid epidemic. In which all the opposition parties raised the issues of lack of vaccines, lack of beds, and oxygen, during the second wave in hospitals and questioned the government. 

New Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya answered all the questions. But Union Minister of State for Health Bharti Praveen Pawar said in a shocking written reply about the deaths due to oxygen that there was no death due to lack of oxygen.

No death due to lack of oxygen

Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge said in the Rajya Sabha that all the members wanted that there should be a discussion about Corona. Kharge said, “The dead bodies floating in the Ganges river were nowhere to be found. How many people were buried on the banks of the rivers. This will be remembered in history. Also, lakhs of migrant laborers migrated during this corona epidemic. Many laborers lost their loved ones.

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“The government did not express any concern about them. The government has always been adept in advertising. There was a lack of beds in hospitals, a lack of oxygen, and everything. The Congress leader said that the government was responsible for this whole disorder. should take” Mallikarjun Kharge, Congress leader said.

Apart from Congress, RJD MP Manoj Jha said that he is not giving any speech. He said that first of all, I apologize to all those people whose death we are not even counting in the figures. Jha said that never in history did 50 people die between two sessions of both the houses. They said, “I don’t want to give numbers, my numbers or your numbers.

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On behalf of the government, the new Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya answered the questions of the opposition parties. He said that the discussion on Corona went on for the last four hours. The Leader of the Opposition had said that the discussion should be positive and there should be useful things for further preparation. But since the discussion started, only the government has been criticized in it. Mandaviya alleged that the opposition did politics regarding Corona. He said that there should be no politics in the crisis.

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