Congress slams government for 'jeopardising' well-being of health professionals

Congress spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala recently slammed the central government for jeopardizing the well-being of health professionals in the country. He said that the defenders of the country need protection and not 'taali-mention', referring to the 5-minute gratitude session observed during Janta curfew.

New Delhi: Congress, on Tuesday, hit out at the Center for 'jeopardizing' with the health and well being of Doctors, Nurses, and Health Professionals who are directly engaged in the fight against Coronavirus, by not providing protective equipments to them, while calling it as a 'gross criminality'.

While commenting over the recent tweet of a Government doctor of Haryana, Congress Chief spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala said, "Dear Prime Minister Modiji, on 22nd of March, at 5 o'clock the all clapped for our doctors nurses and health professionals for fighting with coronavirus. But these defenders of our nation do not want 'Thaali-mention' or 'Taali-mention', they need protection and that is what they are demanding from you."

Slamming the government over the lack of essential medical equipments, he said, "Do you even know that today India needs 7,25,000 Hazmat suits, 60 lakhs N-95 masks for all health professionals, 1 crore three ply-masks immediately, but none are available. They are not available because the Health Ministry and the Textile Ministry, between Feb 1 to March 31, did not even decide specifications for the manufacturing of these equipments. This is a gross criminality. Secondly, whatever equipments were available in India, the Commerce Ministry permitted the export of all these things till March 19."

Surjewala blammed Union Ministers Piyush Goyal and Smriti Irani for the current situation of India facing a scarcity of masks, coveralls, ventilators etc. As Prime Minister Narendra Modi is going to address the nation, on Tuesday, at 8 pm, he demanded PM to 'sack' both the Union Ministers for not providing medical gears to the health professionals.

He asserted, "These two are the gross criminal acts committed by your favourite ministers. As you are going to address the nation at 8 pm today, will you announce sacking of Piyush Goyal and Smriti Irani? Will you now answer to the nation for the acts of criminality, committed jeopardizing the health of our doctors and the people of India? The nation awaits your answer."

Earlier today, the former Congress President Rahul Gandhi also tweeted regarding the same, saying, "I'm feeling sad because this was completely avoidable. We had time to prepare. We should have taken this threat much more seriously and have been much better prepared."

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