MP govt airlifts 15,000 vials of remdesivir to districts
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Last Updated: Apr 20, 2021, 03:12 PM IST
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This is the third time in the last five days that the state government deployed its aircraft and helicopters to deliver the consignment of essential drugs, the official said.
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At least 15,000 vials of remdesivir, a key anti-viral drug used in the treatment of COVID-19, arrived in Indore and was airlifted to different parts of Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday, an official said.
This is the third time in the last five days that the state government deployed its aircraft and helicopters to deliver the consignment of essential drugs, the official said.
MP BJP leader flags off vehicles carrying corpses, Congress calls it shameless photo-shoot
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A video of BJP leader Alok Sharma allegedly flagging off vehicles carrying bodies in Bhopal went viral on social media on Monday and created a controversy.
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UPDATED: April 20, 2021 07:45 IST
A video of BJP leader Alok Sharma flagging off vehicles carrying bodies in Bhopal went viral on social media on Monday and created a controversy.
Madhya Pradesh BJP vice president Alok Sharma courted controversy on Monday after he allegedly flagged off and took photographs with six vehicles meant to carry dead bodies in Bhopal on Monday. He then handed over the six ‘shav vahans’ (vehicles) to different hospitals. A video of the incident went viral on social media.
Remediesvir to districts to 15,000 vials of Madhya Pradesh air district
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The latest consignment remade arrived at Devi Ahilyabai Holkar International Airport in Indore. (File)
Indore:
An official said the remains of at least 15,000 vials, a major anti-viral drug used in the treatment of COVID-19, reached Indore and were aired in various parts of Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday.
This is the third time in the last five days that the state government has deployed its aircraft and helicopters to deliver the consignment of essential medicines, the official said.
He said that the latest consignment of Remedisvir arrived at the Devi Ahilyabai Holkar International Airport in Indore in a state government plane from Bangalore, and was taken to various divisional headquarters.
Madhya Pradesh Health Minister Tulsiram Silawat. Photo:mpinfo.org
The ruling BJP and Congress on Sunday lashed out at each other after a video went viral of a State Minister and his supporters breaking coconuts and a priest chanting prayers in front of a tanker transporting oxygen from neighbouring Gujarat.
A sharp spike in COVID-19 cases across M.P. has given rise to a reported shortage of medical oxygen.
In videos being circulated on the social media, M.P. PWD Minister Tulsiram Silawat and his supporters can be seen offering prayers in front of the tanker in Indore, and posing in front of the vehicle for media photographs.
Politicians in Indore stopped the tanker carrying 30 tonnes of oxygen twice for photo ops and a puja before it could be unloaded
INDORE: A tanker carrying 30 tonnes of oxygen from Gujarat arrived in Covid-battered Indore on Saturday night. But while the city was counting its breaths, politicians made a media spectacle of it, holding it up for photo ops at two places before it could start unloading.
This, despite CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s orders that oxygen tankers be given ambulance status and be escorted by police to ensure there is no hold-up. The tanker driver had set off from Jamnagar at 1am, stopping only once for lunch during the 700km journey. “I have not blinked all the way. We are aware of how important oxygen is during Covid times,” driver Shailendra Kushwah told TOI at 11.30pm on Saturday.