Coimbatore: Tirupur MP K Subbarayan has blamed the Union government for shortage of Covid vaccines and oxygen.
“On Wednesday, 24 people in Nashik died without oxygen and 2.95 lakh people tested positive in the country,” Subbarayan’s letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi said. “Cases in Tamil Nadu are increasing rapidly and so is the demand for oxygen. At this juncture, the Centre, without the state government’s permission, diverted 45 metric tonnes of oxygen from Tamil Nadu to Andhra Pradesh and Telengana,” he said.
Calling out the acute vaccine shortage in districts, the MP said he had gone for his second dose only to be refused and asked to come back the next day. “It is the central and state governments’ responsibility to ensure we have enough stock of medicines, oxygen and vaccines. Instead of encouraging private companies, they should have encouraged the Pasteur Institute of India and King Institute in Chennai to manufacture vaccines.”
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