Hummingbird News Desk
NEW DELHI, 15 MAY: After World Health Organisation, NITI Aayog has praised Yogi Adityanath, chief minister of Uttar Pradesh for his model for the management of Covid-19.
The Niti Aayog has tweeted and praised the system of oxygen supply monitoring and real-time Covid management for providing immediate oxygen to every person in need in Uttar Pradesh (which has the country’s largest population) during the unprecedented Covid-19 crisis.
This comes at a time when the Opposition parties across the country especially in West Bengal are vocal against Yogi government who held him responsible for inhuman attitude towards the dead bodies of the Covid patients.
“Hundreds of dead bodies were seen floating in the Ganga river in Uttar Pradesh. It is shameful that a government could not arrange to cremate the bodies. The bodies were thrown in the river and these bodies were about to reach in West Bengal. It is an utter ignorance, arrogance and negligence of a government,” said an activist of ‘No Vote to BJP’ front in West Bengal.
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, the Congress general secretary in-charge of Uttar Pradesh also said the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic was simply another reflection of the UP government’s “arrogant, autocratic and inhuman attitude” towards the people of the state.
Amidst the criticism, the Centre and various states, however, are also implementing this Covid model of Uttar Pradesh.
Due to this Covid-19 management system, in a very short time the Uttar Pradesh government has successfully been able to ramp up 250 MT (metric tonne) of oxygen supply to 1,000 MT.
This is the highest oxygen supply increase by any state across the country. Earlier, the WHO also praised the Yogi government for Covid-19 management in rural areas.
The WHO has lauded the Yogi government for the second time over its approach to Covid-19.
Even during the first wave of the pandemic, WHO cited UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s contact tracing formula as an example which should be emulated by other states and praised his Triple T (Trace, Test and Treat) strategy to control Covid-19 during the second wave of the pandemic.
However, in Uttar Pradesh, too, the rate of Covid infections has increased manifold. On April 24, 38,055 infections were recorded in 24 hours. Adityanath himself was infected with Covid-19 in April while reviewing the ground preparations to fight the virus in the state. At that time some people had predicted the number of cases would reach nearly one lakh in the coming months. Despite the criticism, Yogi was relentless in his fight against Covid-19.
He actively monitored the Covid situation in the state through virtual mode every day.
Due to the rapid pace of the infection during the second wave, Yogi Adityanath formed ‘Team 9’ instead of ‘Team 11’ and decentralized rights and accountability over Covid-19. Due to these reasons Covid is seen to be largely under control in the state.
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