PANJIM: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) said a major calamity was avoided last night after GMC ward ran out of oxygen and despite this the State government has still not got its act together.
Expressing disbelief at the sheer apathy of the government, AAP State convenor Rahul Mhambre said the situation at GMC today is actually even worse, with many patients now being told to make their own arrangements for oxygen cylinders.
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He highlighted an incident last night when an alert citizen, Ashley Delaney, posted an SOS message on social media platform warning that the GMC ran out of oxygen in Ward 142 and that patients may die as their O2 saturation levels were dropping.
He said AAP leader Valmiki Naik, after seeing the SOS post, immediately informed the Chief Minister and Health Minister via telephone, following which emergency supply of oxygen was brought in.
Stating that timely action stopped a major tragedy from taking place, he described the situation as so bad that doctors were bringing cylinders from other wards and sharing one cylinder between multiple patients just to keep them alive.
AAP has demanded that the CM make a time-bound enquiry as to why a system has not been set up yet to raise SOS for such critical shortages of oxygen, despite the reporting of deaths due to this reason.
Stating that the CM and Health Minister have so far only shifted the blame for high death rate to people by giving excuses like comorbidities and delay in admission, Mhambre demanded to know as now whom will they blame for the lives being lost due to oxygen shortage at the hospitals.
Condemning the blame games between the CM and Health Minister, he said the BJP govt cannot hide behind any explanations or excuses any more and demanded that results have to be shown by taking collective responsibility, or the govt must resign.
Even during such times of despair and grief, a BJP MLA is fighting to seek a portfolio in the cabinet, he alleged.
