Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra today wrote to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath more than COVID-19 management in the state. She also presented recommendations for properly handling the COVID-19 crisis and assisting the persons. “It’s a matter of concern that COVID-19 testing in the state is very less compared to the rise in cases. A large number of cases are not being reported. Testing is not being conducted in rural areas. In urban areas, people are facing difficulties in getting tested. They did not get reports for many days,” she claimed.
She stated that the war against corona is based on 4 pillars – test, treat, track and vaccination. “If you will destroy the first pillar, then how will we defeat this deadly virus?” Priyanka Gandhi stated in her letter.
She alleged that the second most significant concern is the lack of beds, oxygen, medicines in hospitals and their black advertising and marketing. “Ayushman scheme card has failed and no hospital is considering it. People are forced to pay three-four times the price for life-saving medicines like Remedesivir and Oxygen,” she stated.
She also questioned the state for not vaccinating sufficient persons in the last 5 months.
She urged the government to announce a monetary package for frontline workers and open all the COVID hospitals which have been shut.
Priyanka Gandhi stated that the state ought to boost the quantity of RT-PCR tests to 80% of the total each day tests. She advised the government to distribute the CORONA kit with the assist of Anganwadi and Asha workers. The Congress leader also urged the government to cap the rates of life-saving medicines.
She also wrote in the letter that sufficient arrangements ought to be performed for the storage of Oxygen so that a reserve stock is prepared in case of emergency.
Priyanka Gandhi also asked the Yogi Adityanath government to provide simple reliefs like exemptions in water bills, electrical energy bills, neighborhood taxes and so forth to weavers, artisans, tiny shopkeepers and so forth.