Chandigarh, May 12

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) today said the rising cases of Covid-19 in Punjab and the high number of deaths at the Rajindra hospital in Patiala were due to poor health services in the state for which Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh and Health Minister Balbir Singh Sidhu were responsible.

AAP MLA Kultar Singh Sandhwan said the Captain government had not built a single new government hospital in the past four and a half years and the existing government hospitals lacked resources and medical staff.

He said the outbreak of Covid in Punjab had reached villages and as a result, more than 4.5 lakh cases had been reported in the state and the death toll had risen to 11,000. — TNS