Daijiworld Media Network - Udupi (SP)

Udupi, May 11: Udupi district Congress Committee president, Ashok Kumar Kodavoor, charged the state and the central government of having totally failed to control covid19 pandemic's run in the state. He attributed this failure to lack of coordination between the ministers and involvement of the government with business in the name of coronavirus infection.

He said that taking serious view of the government's negligence, the Supreme Court had formed a workforce comprising 12 experts for the distribution of oxygen in the state. Addressing a press conference, he said that this has clearly exposed the government's failure on this front.

"Even when people of the state are dying due to oxygen shortage, the chief minister, BJP MLAs and MPs are not saying anything. Because of the reasons like shortage of beds, oxygen and intensive care unit beds, lack of ventilators etc, a state of medical emergency has been created in Karnataka. He therefore urged for creating a committee of all the parties in the best interests of the people's health.

Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee panellist Veronica Carnelio, Backward Classes district president Sankappa, Congress district secretary Keerthi Shetty etc were present.

In the meanwhile, former minister Vinay Kumar Sorake, criticized the district administration for fixing St Cecily School in the city as the centre for getting second dose of the vaccine. He said that the people who got their first dose in primary health centres cannot be expected to come to the district headquarters for the second dose. He therefore demanded to provide second dose of the vaccine in primary health centres, and take steps to mitigate shortage of Remdesivir in rural areas.