Will set up post-Covid clinics, promises Tamil Nadu CM M K Stalin

CHENNAI: Blaming the previous AIADMK government for the rise in Covid cases to 26,000 in the run up to the polls, chief minister M K Stalin on Thursday said the government would set up post-Covid clinics in all government medical college hospitals and that the clinics would be manned by specialists.
Replying to the debate on motion of thanks to the governor’s address, the chief minister said in the assembly that several people, who recovered from Covid infection, had been reporting some complications. Stalin said Palaniswami was chief minister until May 6 and he failed to check the rise in cases. The cases that stood at 6,618 on April 12, shot up to19,588 on May 2, when the votes were counted.
Though the election code of conduct came into force on February 26, the EPS government wrote to the election commission only on April 9 seeking permission for the chief minister to hold Covid review. “The AIADMK has to take responsibility for the rise. The infection rose drastically since March 6. The state commission for protection of child rights even warned the education department.
The cases surpassed 19,000 per day in April. It is wrong to say the AIADMK contained the spread. Did anyone tell him (EPS) not to do Covid work?” Stalin asked. He wondered whether the AIADMK government had forgotten that it had to run the administration - especially carrying out Covid-related work - till the new government took over. Palaniswami intervened to say the election commission authorised only the chief secretary to do Covid review.