AMU deaths: Adityanath visits college to evaluate COVID-19 scenario

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath visited AMU on Thursday to take inventory of the coronavirus scenario on the college, the place at the very least 35 serving and retired school members have died because of COVID or COVID-like signs within the latest weeks.
Expressing grief over the deaths at Aligarh Muslim University’s Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, he mentioned he hoped that the vaccination drive on the campus would decide up quickly and assist in enhancing the scenario.
On his first go to to AMU since he assumed workplace in 2017, the chief minister additionally mentioned that the availability of oxygen to the college’s medical faculty is being augmented.
The college hospital, nonetheless, hasn’t reported any deaths because of the scarcity of oxygen.
Meanwhile, the Congress termed Adityanath’s go to “an attempt to cover up the total breakdown of health services in UP”.
AMU’s a number of senior school members, retired professors and non-teaching workers have succumbed to COVID-19 or COVID-like signs over the previous three weeks.
Alarmed by the deaths, AMU Vice Chancellor Tariq Mansoor had written to the Indian Council of Medical Research on May 9, urging it to review if a specific coronavirus variant is circulating across the college campus.
The college’s medical faculty had additionally despatched some samples for genome sequencing to the Institute of Genomics and Integrated Biology Laboratory, Delhi.
Adityanath reached Aligarh shortly earlier than midday in a helicopter that landed on the AMU Cricket Ground.
He held a gathering with senior officers of AMU and the district administration on the medical faculty’s auditorium.
Speaking to reporters after the assembly, the chief minister mentioned he hoped that the scenario within the college would enhance as soon as the vaccination drive on the campus picks up.
He mentioned the availability of oxygen to the Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College is being elevated.The provide started on Wednesday and this can resolve any scarcity of oxygen.
Officials on the Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College have been in search of pressing provides of oxygen cylinders for the previous two weeks.
According to hospital authorities, the medical faculty hadn’t obtained a single oxygen cylinder in a fortnight until Wednesday and was solely depending on its three liquid oxygen vegetation.
Though the hospital authorities haven’t reported any deaths because of oxygen shortage, there have been unofficial reviews pointing to acute affected person misery brought on by the non-availability of oxygen cylinders and “low-pressure levels” in pipe provide.
Adityanath additionally held a gathering to evaluate the COVID-19 scenario in Aligarh with district officers on the built-in Covid management centre.
He mentioned there was a “decline in active COVID-19 cases” within the Aligarh division “in the past week as compared to the previous week”.
Adityanath additionally claimed that there was a marked decline within the variety of energetic circumstances throughout the state over the previous few days and added that steps are being taken to enhance oxygen provides.
He mentioned the shortfall of oxygen was the results of a sudden rise within the day by day demand for the life-saving fuel final month from 300 metric tonnes to 1,000 metric tonnes.
Adityanath mentioned the state authorities has additionally began making ready for a doable third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
As of Thursday, Uttar Pradesh’s COVID-19 caseload stands at 15,80,980 whereas 16,646 individuals have succumbed to the viral illness within the state, in keeping with officers.
AICC spokesperson and former Aligarh MLA Vivek Bansal alleged that Adityanath’s go to to AMU was “an attempt to cover up the total breakdown of health services in UP”.
It is “shocking” that Adityanath made no point out of the our bodies which have discovered floating within the Ganga river over the previous few days throughout his media briefing.
“Instead of explaining this, the chief minister claimed that COVID is on the decline,” he mentioned.Bansal alleged that the state’s COVID-19 information shouldn’t be correct as there isn’t any provision of testing in rural areas the place persons are succumbing to the viral illness even earlier than they are often examined.
He claimed that although the chief minister has introduced that COVID-19 sufferers present process remedy in personal hospitals can be reimbursed by the federal government, it stays largely “on paper” and persons are working from pillar to publish to get remedy.
Earlier, Bansal and plenty of Congress employees tried to carry a protest on the makeshift helipad the place Adityanath’s helicopter landed however had been prevented from doing so by police.