Covid management in Bareilly poor, Gangwar tells Yogi

BAREILLY:

Union minister Santosh Gangwar

has written an “open letter” to

Uttar

Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath highlighting the Covid-19 “mismanagement” and said that senior health officials in the city don’t pick up their phones and

oxygen cylinders

are being hoarded.


“When a patient goes to an L3 hospital, he is told to get a referral from the district hospital. So the patient keeps on running from one place to the other even as his oxygen level continues to fall,” the Union minister said.

In the open letter, the Bareilly MP alleged that there was rampant hoarding of oxygen cylinders with many dealers selling it at higher prices. He also complained that medical equipment like monitors and ventilators were being sold in the market at exorbitant rates. He urged the CM to fix the price of the equipment.

Gangwar also requested the state government to provide 50% subsidy to private hospitals for setting up oxygen plants, on the lines of Madhya Pradesh.