Ajay Maken slams Satyendar Jain on chikungunya remark
Amid debate over whether chikungunya can lead to de-ath, Delhi Congress chief Ajay Maken, on Sunday, said health minister Satyendar Jain’s statement that people cannot die of chikungunya “shows his in
Amid debate over whether chikungunya can lead to de-ath, Delhi Congress chief Ajay Maken, on Sunday, said health minister Satyendar Jain’s statement that people cannot die of chikungunya “shows his insensitivity and ignorance”. Mr Jain has been reiterating that “as per medical literature chikungunya cannot cause death, and has accused media of spreading panic.”
“At a time when people are dying of chikungunya, the statement by the health minister that people cannot die of chikungunya shows his insensitivity and ignorance,” Mr Maken said while launching a fogging drive by the Delhi Pradesh Traders Congress here.
At least 15 fatalities have been reported at various hospitals due to chikungunya complications, including a 22-year-old girl who died of a cardiac arr-est triggered by chikungunya complications.
“According to the 2015 report of WHO, 191 people in North America and South America had died of chikungunya,” Mr Maken said, and asked “whether people should reject the report of one of the key members of the UNO (United Nations Organisation) like the WHO, which said that people have died of chikungunya in America”.
The committee set up by the Delhi government to review cases of death attributed to dengue and chikungunya complications has “ruled out” chikungunya as the primary cause of fatality and said it was “co-morbid conditions” in its patients which led to their deaths.
Taking potshots at the Kejriwal government, Mr Maken said over 30 lives have already been claimed by chikungunya and dengue, and crowded hospitals in Delhi are “putting 3-4 people on one bed”.
He alleged that the condition of the mohalla clinics was “equally bad” as these clinics open only for four hours daily, and doctors and medicines have become “scarce” there.
Hitting out at the AAP government, Mr Maken said the Delhi government has “woefully failed” to provide health care to the people at this critical time, which is a “violation of the Right to Life”, guaranteed in the Constitution.