Political uproar over centre's ‘no death’ claim due to oxygen crisis | Seedhe Field Se (21 July 2021)

At the peak of the second Covid wave, the struggle among India's hospitals and patients had captured global attention. Now, in Rajya Sabha centre govt has issued a statement saying that no deaths were reported due to the crisis on oxygen. Slamming the report, Delhi's health minister Satyendra Jain in a press conference said that no data was provided by states on deaths due to oxygen shortage. Meanwhile, Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray has confirmed that there have been no deaths in their state for the same.