Jagan for action against Yello Media for spreading fake news about Covid deaths
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy took a serious view of the stories being peddled in a section of the media on Covid. During a review meeting on the Covid situation at Tadepalli on Monday, YS Jagan Mohar Reddy said that a section of media was trying to spread panic and scare among the people. At a time when there was no shortage of both medicines, vaccines and oxygen, these media houses were trying to spread falsehoods.
Jagan referred to the report published on the front page of a newspaper that three persons had died in Ashram Hosptal in West Godavari's Eluru. The report said that three persons - Benjamin, Nagalakshmi and Dorababu - did die in the Ashram Hospital, but the cause of death was not the non-availability of Oxygen. Principal Secretary (Health) Anil Singhal informed YS Jagan that while Dorababu was admitted into the hospital on May 25 and was under treatment for as many as 25 days. He suffered from diabetes and several other complications. He was on ventilator when he died of multiple organ failure. Both Nagalakshmi and Benjamin too died of cardiac arrest and not due to lack of oxygen supply. Jagan took a serious view of this and said that there was no power outage at all on the day of their death. He said by spreading such fake stories, a section of media wants to create panic and defame the government.
He said that there was no shortage whatsoever of oxygen in the state. He said Oxygen was available in surplus. Even beds and ventilators were available in plenty, he pointed out..He directed the officials to initiate action against the two newspapers which had spread the fake news.
Jagan referred to the report published on the front page of a newspaper that three persons had died in Ashram Hosptal in West Godavari's Eluru. The report said that three persons - Benjamin, Nagalakshmi and Dorababu - did die in the Ashram Hospital, but the cause of death was not the non-availability of Oxygen. Principal Secretary (Health) Anil Singhal informed YS Jagan that while Dorababu was admitted into the hospital on May 25 and was under treatment for as many as 25 days. He suffered from diabetes and several other complications. He was on ventilator when he died of multiple organ failure. Both Nagalakshmi and Benjamin too died of cardiac arrest and not due to lack of oxygen supply. Jagan took a serious view of this and said that there was no power outage at all on the day of their death. He said by spreading such fake stories, a section of media wants to create panic and defame the government.
He said that there was no shortage whatsoever of oxygen in the state. He said Oxygen was available in surplus. Even beds and ventilators were available in plenty, he pointed out..He directed the officials to initiate action against the two newspapers which had spread the fake news.