Maharashtra:No death due to oxygen shortage- Health minister

The Maharashtra government has put a seal on the union government's statement and claimed that there has been no death on account of shortage of oxygen in the state. He emphasised that there is no report which shows that a patient died due to lack of oxygen in Maharashtra. Health Minister Rajesh Tope on Wednesday that 100% industrial production was converted for liquid medical oxygen with purity ensured since we were committed to provide everyone with oxygen in the state. Even the Central government helped us when we were running short and gave us 200-300 MT of oxygen at the peak of the pandemic.

Tope further added that the state has given an affidavit in this regard in the courts as well. "This is a reality.  Logistic facilities were created for all districts and monitoring was done to see there is no theft for the industries. Its purity was maintained, and we did successful oxygen management and conservation. Efforts were made to ensure there is no oxygen wastage in the state," he said. "Even at a time when the state was seeing 65,000 Covid-19 cases, we managed with 1700 MT of oxygen. By God’s grace, there was no mishap or accident or incident where the patient didn’t get oxygen,” said Rajesh Tope.