‘PM wanted Surat to be Shanghai, it has become Wuhan’

Surat: Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) president, Amit Chavda on Wednesday criticised the BJP government in the state and the Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) for their inability in controlling the Covid-19 spread in the city.
Chavda visited the SMC-run SMIMER hospital and the New Civil Hospital (NCH) to take stock of the situation.
Talking with media persons, Chavda said, “It was PM Narendra Modi’s dream to make Surat India’s Shanghai. Before Shanghai, Surat has become the next Wuhan with more than 500 people succumbing to Covid-19 and over 12,000 people getting infected with the deadly virus. There is a vast difference in the death figures given by the municipal corporation and those registered at the crematoriums and burial grounds in Surat.”
Chavda added, “We are going to demand for the special session of Gujarat Assembly to discuss the government’s approach in tackling the rising cases of Covid-19, particularly in Surat.”
According to Chavda, the medical and paramedical staff in the government hospitals of Surat are facing a huge challenges due to the severe shortage of staff and an increasing number of Covid-19 patients. “There is a severe shortage of ventilators and oxygen beds in the government hospitals and the government is hiding the real figures of people succumbing to Covid-19,” Chavda alleged.
Blaming the government for the black marketing of the life-saving injections, Chavda said, “Patients in government hospitals are running pillar to post to get the life-saving injections and that they are being sold at exorbitant prices in the black market. The government seems to have lost touch with humanity when it comes to saving the lives of poor people.”