Friday, 28 May 2021 | PNS | Dehradun
On the slow pace of the Covid 19 vaccination and acute shortage of the medicines needed in the treatment of Mucormycosis, the Uttarakhand Congress organised a Dharna at the state health directorate on Thursday. On the day the Vice President of Uttarakhand Congress Surya Kant Dhasmana and others arrived at the health directorate and staged a sit-in there.
Dhasmana said that the vaccination drive in the state has virtually ceased for 18 plus individuals. He said that in all the vaccination centres the posters of no vaccines are greeting the people. Dhasmana said that only two percent of the population of Uttarakhand has been vaccinated so far and at the present pace it would require at least three years for vaccination of the population. Dhasmana said that the union government has relieved itself from the responsibility of providing vaccines by loading it on the states. The state governments are not able to procure the vaccines due to which people are suffering. He also targeted the health department for failing to provide injections for the Black fungus. Later he marched into the office of Director General (DG) health services Dr Tripti Bahuguna and questioned her on the non availability of vaccines and injections for treating Black fungus. The secretary of Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) Vikas Negi, Mahesh Joshi and Girish Bhadri and others accompanied Dhasmana.
