Is Nitish fudging information to current a rosy image of COVID management in Bihar?

Nitish Kumar’s media administration strategies are well-known. Despite poor dealing with of coronavirus, he will get little or no adverse protection from native in addition to nationwide media. A number of days in the past, a COVID-19 affected person named Chunnu Kumar, 40,  was reportedly declared useless by the Patna Medical College Hospital (PMCH) and his household was handed over the demise certificates and the physique. The physique was taken to the crematorium and attributable to COVID-19 restrictions, the officers didn’t enable the household to check out the useless physique. However, after the household insisted, they have been allowed to check out the physique and have been as shocked to search out out that it was the physique of another particular person. Later it was discovered that Chunnu Kumar was alive and was not even contaminated with Coronavirus.“My whole family has tested negative for coronavirus. My husband has been nursing a broken leg for several days. He cannot move an inch, how could he test positive for the virus? Hospital is neglecting their patients, otherwise, how could they be mistaken?” mentioned Kavita, Kumar’s spouse.The above instance of Chunnu Kumar is sufficient to infer that the Nitish Kumar authorities of Bihar has reportedly failed in managing the coronavirus and is busy fudging information as an alternative. A number of weeks in the past, in an investigative collection, The Indian Express revealed that many Primary Health Centres (PHCs) in Bihar have been fudging the COVID-19 check information, and recorded the full variety of assessments performed in lots of districts a lot increased than the precise numbers. However, not one of the medical officers in these districts have been held accountable for fudging information and escaped with the statements like ‘strict action will be taken’, ‘we will get it investigated’ and so forth similar to the superintendent of Patna Medical College who mentioned “Stern action will be taken against those found guilty,” within the useless man declared alive case of Chunnu Kumar. “We have received some complaints of Covid test data fudging. We have also withheld the salary of the Barhat PHC medical officer on-charge. We will initiate action against any official found guilty in our investigation,” mentioned Jamui District Programme Manager (DPM) Sudhanshu Lal within the information funding case. After the information fudging was revealed, Pratayaya Amrit, Principal Secretary, Bihar Health Department, mentioned, “We will get this investigated at all levels. We are asking civil surgeons to explain how such things are happening. We are also proposing to link such tests to Aadhar. We are introducing this system for the Covid vaccination.”Nitish Kumar is proving himself inefficient in dealing with the coronavirus disaster in Bihar regardless of the expertise of 1 and a half-decade. During the migrant disaster, when states like Uttar Pradesh despatched buses to carry again their stranded staff from cities like Mumbai and Delhi, Nitish Kumar instructed the employees from Bihar to remain the place they’re. Moreover, when the labourers reached the border of Bihar within the buses offered by different states for his or her residents, the Nitish Kumar administration reportedly stored them in quarantine in inhuman situations.  The newly elected CMs like Yogi Adityanath, Hemant Soren, and Bhupesh Baghel have proved themselves to be simpler than Nitish Kumar – who has a long time of expertise within the Union in addition to state authorities. If the BJP desires its repute to not be destroyed because of the inefficiency of Nitish Kumar, it should throw the JD(U) chief out and set up its personal CM in Bihar.