No Covid-19 deaths reported in Uttar Pradesh due to oxygen shortage, claims state health minister

The Uttar Pradesh government on Thursday claimed that no deaths had been reported in the state because of lack of oxygen during the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic between April and May, reported PTI.

Health Minister Jai Pratap Singh told the state Legislative Council that death certificates of none of the 22,915 coronavirus victims in the stated mentioned oxygen shortage as the cause.

To this, Congress leader Deepak Singh asked the state government whether it had information about deaths due to oxygen shortage that have been flagged by its own ministers.

“Many ministers wrote letters saying deaths are taking place due to lack of oxygen in the state,” Singh asked during the Question Hour in the House, reported PTI. “Apart from this, many MPs had also made such complaints. Many incidents of deaths due to lack of oxygen had come to light. Is there any information with the government about these deaths in the entire state.”

The Congress leader also said that dead bodies of suspected Covid-19 patients were seen along the banks and flowing in the Ganga river in Uttar Pradesh during the peak of the second wave of the pandemic between April and May.

Several bodies suspected to be of Covid-19 patients that were buried in the sandbanks of the Ganga river in the state’s Prayagraj…

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