The Telangana government’s claims that no one in the state died due to oxygen shortage during the ongoing second wave of Covid-19 have been rubbished by doctors, public health specialists and ground-level health workers.
The state government has, in response to a missive from the Centre to all states asking whether there were deaths of Covid-19 patients resulting from a shortage of oxygen, has informed the Centre that Telangana did not have any such death.
The letter was sent on Wednes