NAGERCOIL
Instead of hiding the actual number of ‘dengue deaths’ in the State, the government should gear up to face the threat by equipping government hospitals to treat dengue patients, CPI (M) State secretary G. Ramakrishnan has said.
Speaking to reporters here on Thursday, Mr. Ramakrishnan said Minister for Public Health C. Vijaya Baskar had put the number of dengue patients only at 10,000 and ‘dengue deaths’ at 23 when the deans of various medical college hospitals had admitted that each hospital had received over 2,000 dengue patients every month between January and October.
Special attempts were being made by doctors and health department to hide the real number of ‘dengue deaths’. The government should provide all medical college hospitals, government hospitals and primary health centres with the right equipment to provide effective treatment for dengue patients.
Stating that the Narendra Modi-led Union government had failed on all fronts, Mr. Ramakrishnan said the demonetisation and Goods and Services Tax had strangulated the domestic industries, especially small and medium-scale manufacturing units, and the recent observation by former Union Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha had categorically proved that Finance Ministry was leading the country towards a catastrophe.
“However, Mr. Modi is telling the country, especially the farmers, that he would double their revenue within the next five years at a time when agriculturists of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh are revolting against the BJP-led governments for the anti-farmer policies. All these States are witnessing suicides of farmers. In a bid to hide its failures caused by poor economic policies, the BJP-led Centre and these State governments are encouraging the ‘Sangh Parivar’ to intensify their activities,” Mr. Ramakrishnan charged.
He said the Centre, through coercive measures, was controlling the “corrupt” Tamil Nadu government as there was no possibility of forming a BJP government here.