PANJIM: “COVID-19 situation in Goa is worsening day-by-day. All the hospitals are working beyond its capacity. Patients are put on floors, stretchers and chairs as there are no beds available. What next? Is Chief Minister Pramod Sawant preparing for pyres and graves now?” asked Goa Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) president Girish Chodankar.
Chodankar further alleges that the Health Minister and Chief Minister are busy scoring political brownie points on each other. He said Government is clueless and has no plan of action in place. “How will COVID infected patients survive, if there is no treatment facility available. The only option left to them is to die as the insensitive BJP government failed to create adequate medical facilities in last one year despite knowing that second wave of COVID may hit anytime,” Chodankar said.
He said that the COVID control room opened by the Congress party is getting calls every minute asking for help. “We are struggling as there are no beds available and no mechanism put in place by the government to give information to public on COVID handling and management,” he said.
Pointing to the Health Minister’s Facebook posting that in coming days 200-300 deaths to occur in Goa, which he later deleted, Chodankar asked, “Did he delete the tweet after getting warning from Modi-Shah duo or Goa’s super Chief Minister ordered him to do so?”
