NEW DELHI: Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Saturday urged the Centre to evolve a national policy to deal with the pandemic after bringing about a political consensus on it. In a video message released on Saturday, Gandhi said it is time for the Union and state governments to wake up and fulfil their duties and said vaccination against the virus should be provided free of cost to all along with the imposition of compulsory licensing to ramp up vaccine production to speed up the inoculation drive.
тАЬI urge the central government to evolve a national policy to deal with the Covid crisis in the country and a strategy to bring about a political consensus over it,тАЭ she said.
Gandhi lauded doctors, nursing staff and health workers for treating patients even as their own lives are at risk, and urged the Union government to secure the poor by transferring Rs 6,000 each to their bank accounts to stop them from migrating till the end of the pandemic. She also called for increased testing and sought the governmentтАЩs intervention to end black marketing of essential life-saving drugs and said governments must ensure adequate supplies of oxygen, medicines and other equipment to hospitals on a war-footing. She also opposed the differential prices of coronavirus vaccines.
тАЬOur country is facing the pandemic and lakhs of our citizens have been affected by coronavirus every day. This crisis is the testing time for all of us and we have to hold each other’s hands and support each other. The current times have shattered humanity,тАЭ she said, urging for unity in her 5-minute video message.
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