Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav on Wednesday converted his government residence into a COVID-19 care centre. According to Tejashwi, the Covid care facility is free of cost. He has also written to the central government to include the ‘new centre’ for services.
Yadav has set up the centre at 1 polo road in Patna from his private funds. He said that it has all the necessary medical equipment, beds, oxygen and provision for free food.
While speaking to ANI he said, “I request the state government to convert all the government residence provided to us into COVID-19 care centres, quarantine centres because people are not getting beds, oxygen and other medical facilities at the government hospitals.”
“Being a responsible opposition, we want to give our residence to the state government for the people,” he added.
As per the rules, it has been decided to hand over the COVID-19 centre to the state government. In this regard, he has written a letter to the government asking it to take up the COVID-19 care centre.
He added that he has written a letter to Chief Minister Nitish Kumar but has not received any reply.
“I urge the state government to take over the COVID-19 centre and we are there to help in any way. Just let us know what we can do to help them,” he further said.
Reportedly, Yadav has been living with his mother Rabri Devi at her 10 Circular Road residence despite being allocated a bungalow at Polo Road.
Critical of the Nitish Kumar-led government’s handling of the novel coronavirus crisis, he had recently sought permission so that MLAs can serve COVID-19 patients and their attendants by providing them relief materials, besides opening centres and community kitchens for them.
Current covid situation in Bihar:
At present, there are 64,699 active novel coronavirus cases in the state while 5,95,377 patients have recovered and 4039 fatalities have been recorded. While a total of 74,94,315 persons have been inoculated in Bihar till now, 17,06,465 of them have received the second dose of the vaccine too.
