Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee president and Nalgonda MP N Uttam Kumar Reddy on Saturday criticized that the incompetent rule of the TRS government has created panic among the people about the Covid and led to the present health care crisis in the state.
Addressing the media, he said that hospitals and Covid patients have come to the mind of the Chief Minister one year and three months after the onset of the pandemic in the country. He said that there was a big mismatch between the number of positive cases and deaths being announced by the government and actual ones.
He said that Covid treatment should be provided free of cost in private hospitals to all the 80 lakh BPL families of the state and they should be provided with free ambulance services. He said no steps have been taken to provide free treatment in private hospitals even though they have submitted a memorandum to the Governor.
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He said that the state government has been covering up its inefficiency and even it has been evading implementation of orders of the High Court. He said that soon they would move the court on the inefficiency of the state government.
Reddy criticized that there was no control over the private hospitals in the state. He said Rs 50,000 has been charged for oxygen beds and Rs 1.5 lakh for ventilator beds by the private hospitals. The government orders on regulating the charges have gone for a toss.
He wanted to know why the Telangana government was going back on providing free treatment to Covid in private hospitals while Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, and Maharashtra states were able to do.
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He said that the second wave of Covid would have been controlled if the government had taken up RTPCR tests which would have costed just Rs 9 crores to the state exchequer during the period of the first wave.
He said that due to the inefficiency and squandering of public money by the state government, the state has gone bankrupt and the government was unable to bear even small expenditure anymore.
SOURCE-NSS
