Patients and general public in Tiruvallur district alleged that medical equipment, including oxygen cylinders allotted to government hospitals, is being diverted to Indira Hospital, which is owned by DMK MLA Rajendran.
The public has blamed the lack of adequate bed facilities at the Tiruvallur government hospital and negligence of the authorities as the reason for the increase in COVID casualties.
During the last AIADMK regime, 3,000 people were treated at once in the hospital on the campus of the DD Private Medical College in Kunnavalam village in Tiruvallur district. About one lakh twenty thousand patients were cured through this treatment center.
However, the present DMK government has not used this facility. The hospital inside the medical college has 200 beds with oxygen facility. But the authorities are said to be negligent in using them even though the death toll in the district has been rising.
The public has also alleged that medical equipment, including oxygen cylinders at the center, had been transferred to Indira Hospital, which is owned by DMK MLA Rajendran.
திருவள்ளூரில் அதிகாரிகளின் அலட்சியத்தால் உயிரிழப்புகள் அதிகரிப்பதாக மக்கள் குற்றச்சாட்டு!#Thiruvallur | #Coronahttps://t.co/P57NeoO6C9
— News18 Tamil Nadu (@News18TamilNadu) May 25, 2021
(with inputs from News18 Tamil)
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