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05 June 2021
On 5 May 2021, relatives of COVID-19 patients refill oxygen cylinders from a facility in Uttar Pradeshâs Meerut city. The Bharatiya Janata Party-led state government has consistently insisted that Uttar Pradesh set âa great example of COVID managementâ but hundreds of news reports from the ground contradict the stateâs assertions. PTI
On 5 May 2021, relatives of COVID-19 patients refill oxygen cylinders from a facility in Uttar Pradeshâs Meerut city. The Bharatiya Janata Party-led state government has consistently insisted that Uttar Pradesh set âa great example of COVID managementâ but hundreds of news reports from the ground contradict the stateâs assertions.
Allahabad High Court has rapped the Yogi Adityanath government for hiding key facts about Covid treatment facilities and the number of deaths, and failing to comply with earlier orders on furnishing hospitals with life-saving equipment and drugs.
“Neither required information as mandated by our order has been given nor, otherwise, compliance has been made (with) our various directions,” the bench of Justices Siddharth Varma and Ajit Kumar observed on Tuesday, reacting to an affidavit filed by Uttar Pradesh home secretary Badugu Deva Paulson.
The observations, uploaded on the court website on Wednesday, came during the hearing of a public interest plea. Some of the court’s observations:
For post-pandemic media, public health needs to be the biggest story
Indiaâs healthcare system has not folded because of the pandemic, it was already broken.
13 May, 2021
From burning pyres and patients gasping for breath to bodies floating down the Ganga, India has been through another torrid fortnight. The whole world is now aware of the extent of the tragedy unfolding. Yet, our government continues to focus on fixing what it considers to be a negative narrative.
A fortnight back, when the focus of international and national media coverage was the desperate situation in New Delhi, where hospitals, private and public, were running out of oxygen and patients were dying not from the disease but from the absence of oxygen supply, we knew already that if we turned our gaze away from the cities, a much more tragic state-of-affairs was unfolding.