“No one wants to remember those three months from April to June when Government practically did not exist. When people wanted help it was nowhere. The demand for oxygen shot up and medicines vanished from the racks of medical stores.The Adityanath government’s intolerance for dissent became evident during those dark times too when it sought to clamp down criticism of its public health failures by booking hospitals for requesting oxygen supply, sending notices to reporters for questioning the shortage of the life-saving gas, and filing cases against residents for complaining about the state’s abysmal healthcare system.“Us waqt Ram Rajya laane wali sarkar khud Ram bharose thee”, said Anniruddh Sharma, a social activist.He said: “There were thousands of people across Uttar Pradesh who were struggling to get hospital beds, medicines and when some of them died, their relatives lined up in crematorium for hours to cremate the bodies”.People purchased Remdesivir, a crucial drug for the treatment of Covid-19, at Rs 12,000 per vial against the printed price of Rs 4500. Another drug Covifor sold at an exorbitant rate of Rs 4000 while its actual price was Rs 1500.
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