Amid the surge in covid cases in the Maharashtra, patients are struggling to find beds in hospitals also there is shortage of Remdesivir injection used to treat covid patients. Relatives of COVID-19 patients in Pune on Thursday staged sit-in protest outside Collector's office demanding the supply of anti-viral drug Remdesivir, also used for the treatment of coronavirus.
Maharashtra Nawab Malik on Saturday made a serious allegations against the central government and said that Central Government has asked export companies not to supply the Remdesivir medicine to Maharashtra. He alleged that the export companies were warned, if they did, their license will be cancelled.
In another tweet he wrote," This is a dangerous precedent and under these circumstances, Maharashtra Government will have no choice but to seize the stock of Remdesivir from these exporters and supply it to the needy."
BJP chief spokesperson Keshav Upadhye was quick to react to Malik's allegations and said," Instead making such wild and baseless allegations, Nawab Malik should provide proof or else should apologise. It is a high time that MVA stops blame game and does its job of handling the pandemic. Is this an official stance of state government? If so, CM Uddhav Thackeray should come forward and clarify the facts. Or prevent the ministers from making such irresponsible and baseless allegations."
Nawab Malik shared a letter from his Twitter account and wrote,"Here is the another proof of step motherly treatment given by central government to #Maharashtra.This is the approval letter to one of the export companies to supply stock of #Remdesivir to the state of Gujarat Only.Can this double standards be explained.