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| Free Covid kit ‘ghotala’ hits JK! | | People demand probe | | Early Times Report
Jammu, June 30: Even as the government of Jammu and Kashmir had announced that Covid kits comprising life-saving items would be distributed free of cost among the patients, the public complaints suggest that it could be another alleged scam as the affected didn’t get deliverance of the promise.
The Early Times received complaints from numerous Covid patients, who tested positive since the announcement made on May 17 to have not been given the free kits for home treatment as promised by the government.
Sources said there was a need for a high level inquiry into the matter as it could end up as a major scam as a huge number of Covid patients have tested positive since and the expenditure on Covid kits will into crores that way.
Many of the complainants said they were denied free of cost Covid kits even at government hospitals.
Shockingly even those Below the Poverty Line category were denied the free kits.
Early Times accessed prescription of a poor man who had to pay money for procurement of medicine for Covid from a hospital.
Five days after the announcement of the scheme, on May 22, the poor patient vide MRD No 2581 had tested positive at a hospital in Pulwama. The poor patient had to procure all the medicines and oxymeter from open market.
Vide bill number 17501 he paid the money for the medicine from a fair price shop at the hospital and subsequently went to the town to buy oxymeter and other things.
On May 17, on the instructions of the Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha, the government had announced that free covid kits would be given, something allegedly not delivered on the ground.
The government of Jammu and Kashmir in reaching out to COVID-19 patients under home isolation was scheduled to provide them with free COVID treatment kits.
“COVID-19 positive patients have been receiving special COVID-19 care packages containing an Oximeter, prescription package, vitamins, cough syrup, and pamphlets of dos and don'ts during the separation time from the medical health and revenue team at their homes,” the officials had said.
Taking to Early Times on the condition of anonymity, a senior official refuted the allegations of any scam in the distribution of Covid kits. But he couldn’t answer why specific cases didn’t get the kits.
Meanwhile the people have appealed Prime Minister Narendra Modi to order a probe into the matter. |
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