Margao (Goa) [India], May 14 (ANI): Former Goa Chief Minister Digambar Kamat on Friday criticised the BJP-led state government for not condoling the deaths of patients reportedly due to lack of oxygen during the past 15-20 days.
India Today Impact: Goa govt to install oxygen tank with capacity of 20,000 litres at GMCH
CM Pramod Sawant said an oxygen tank is being installed at the Goa Medical College and Hospital where a shortage of medical oxygen has resulted in the deaths of 74 Covid patients over the past week.
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Oxygen tank being installed at Goa Medical College and Hospital (Picture Courtesy: Twitter @DrPramodPSawant)
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This tank would be made operational on a war footing, said Goa CM Pramod Sawant
74 Covid patients lost their lives at GHMC over the past week owing to lack of medical oxygen
On May 11, Goa recorded its highest single-day death toll since the beginning of the pandemic
Keep differences aside and focus on curbing Covid in Goa: Nadda
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Keep differences aside and focus on curbing Covid in Goa: Nadda. Image Source: IANS News
New Delhi, May 14 : Bharatiya Janata Party chief J.P. Nadda has asked Goa s Chief Minister Pramod Sawant and Health Minister Vishwajit Rane to keep aside their differences and focus on controlling the Covid pandemic in the state.
Amid the worsening situation in Goa, differences between Sawant and Rane over Covid management have come to the fore.
The central leadership of the party believes that it will harm the BJP a year ahead of the state Assembly polls.
BJP vs BJP in Goa as CM Sawant & Health Minister Rane keep squabbling over Covid surge
Vishwajit Rane has been openly criticising CM Pramod Sawant over oxygen shortage & delayed lockdown, but BJP calls it a mere ‘difference of opinion’.
Manasi Phadke 14 May, 2021 1:09 pm IST Text Size:
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Mumbai: As Goa struggles to contain a sudden surge in Covid-19 cases, with a test positivity rate as high as 50 per cent, a political tug of war between Chief Minister Pramod Sawant and Health Minister Vishwajit Rane is escalating.
Sawant and Rane have locked horns over policy decisions such as imposing lockdown-like restrictions and the supply of oxygen to Covid-positive patients.
Goa: As oxygen shortage claims 75 lives in 4 days, BJP frets about party image
In this handout photograph released by Goa Chief Minister?s office and taken on May 11, 2021 Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant (R), wearing a personal protective equipment (PPE) suit, speaks to Covid-19 Coronavirus patients at the Goa Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), in Panjim after 26 people admitted in the hospital due to the coronavirus died on the early morning.
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Mumbai: With oxygen mismanagement claiming the lives of 15 more Covid patients at the Goa Medical College Hospital in the early hours of Friday, the death toll in the last four days has climbed to 75. With all fingers pointing to Chief Minister Pramod Sawant and Health Minister Vishwajit Rane, the state BJP core committee jumped into action, holding an emergency meeting to decide on face-saving measures for the party. BJP sources told The Free Press Journal, âThe deaths at Goa Medical College Hospital and the governmentâ