Punjab Well being Minister Balbir Singh Sidhu referred to as AAP’s oximeter plan a “political gimmick”
Chandigarh:
Days after Aam Aadmi Celebration chief and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal requested social gathering employees to distribute oximeters in Punjab, the state well being minister has referred to as it a “sport plan of AAP” to advertise neighborhood unfold of coronavirus.
Attacking the AAP’s announcement on oximeters distribution in Punjab as a “political gimmick”, Well being Minister Balbir Singh Sidhu on Tuesday warned of “huge potential of neighborhood unfold” as a result of repeat use of oximeters by a number of folks with out correct sanitisation.
Mr Sidhu stated the AAP was “deceptive them fully, simply as they’d finished in Delhi”, the place the COVID-19 scenario had turned vital at one level, with all of the 11 districts of the nationwide capital among the many nation’s 35 worst-affected districts.
“The usage of the identical oximeter by multiple particular person with out sanitisation may result in additional unfold of COVID-19,” Mr Sidhu stated, including the AAP was selling the oximeters as medication or vaccine.
“The actual fact is it merely helps detect oxygen stage in an individual’s physique. Maybe, their technique was to advertise the additional unfold of the pandemic in Punjab so as to persuade folks to imagine it to be a failure of the state authorities,” Mr Sidhu stated.
“The disinformation marketing campaign, which appeared to be intentionally unfold by the Aam Aadmi Celebration to additional their petty political pursuits in Punjab, is very harmful,” the Minister stated, including it may set off an enormous threat of infecting extra folks and maybe even triggering a large neighborhood unfold in rural areas.
He claimed regardless of Delhi’s lesser inhabitants in contrast with Punjab, the variety of deaths and energetic circumstances within the nationwide capital had been larger. “It exposes the full mismanagement of the COVID-19 disaster by the Kejriwal authorities there. If they can not deal with Delhi regardless of being in management there, how can they assist the folks of Punjab sort out the pandemic?” Mr Sidhu stated.
