A private hospital in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, on Monday asked permission from authorities to shut down its COVID-19 treatment facility, accusing a tehsildar of obstructing the supply of oxygen cylinders.
In a letter to the Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Chauhan Hospital and Eye Care alleged that Tehsildar Preeti Jain had seized 15 of the 30 oxygen-filled cylinders from their facilities and accused her of causing severe hindrances in the day-to-day supply of oxygen required for the hospital.
Relating to this allegation on the tehsildar by the Agra hospital, a video has also surfaced on social media, in which the tehsildar can be seen preventing citizens from directly picking up oxygen cylinders from a plant in the Tedi Bagia area.
“I, along with my family members, touched her feet many times and requested to let us go, but our requests were not heard and we were asked to leave the spot,” said Mohan Verma, a relative of a patient, accusing Preeti Jain of being high-handed in her dealings with the public.
When contacted, Jain said that she was “trying to prevent any panic among the public and avoid damage to the oxygen plant facility”.
“I was asking family members of patients to wait outside the oxygen plant and then they would be given a cylinder. But they did not listen to me and entered the oxygen plant premises,” she said.
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