28/04/21 India’s health systems buckle under new COVID-19 wave
Chennai Trade Center, which has been turned into a COVID-19 quarantine ward, gets disinfected. Hospitals and health facilities in India are now running short of hospital beds for patients who have been infected by COVID-19. Copyright: The Times of India, (CC BY 3.0). This image has been cropped.
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COVID-19: Parliamentary panel had warned about oxygen, hospital bed shortage in November
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare had asked the central government to encourage adequate production of oxygen for ensuring its supply as per demand in hospitals.
Joe C Mathew | April 26, 2021 | Updated 13:32 IST
The Committee also wanted the NPPA to take appropriate measures for capping the price of oxygen cylinders.
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare had flagged the issue of inadequate supply of oxygen and grossly inadequate government hospital beds in November 2020 and asked the central government to take immediate action in view of the COVID-19 pandemic.
How Modi govt ignored parl panel’s suggestion to increase oxygen production ahead of 2nd wave of covid
How Modi govt ignored parl panel’s suggestion to increase oxygen production ahead of 2nd wave of covid
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April 25, 2021
New Delhi, Apr 25: Months before the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic took India by storm, a parliamentary panel in November 2020 had suggested the Prime Minister Narendra Modi led union government to augment hospital beds and oxygen production.
However, the Modi government failed to act on the suggestion and completely focussed on assembly polls, especially in West Bengal.
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health, chaired by Samajwadi Party leader Ram Gopal Yadav, advocated that the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority must take appropriate measures for capping the price of oxygen cylinders so that their availability as well as affordability is ensured.
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