KATHMANDU: Main opposition party Nepali Congress (NC) has asked the government to be more sensitive and more accountable towards the issues of public concern.
Citing the government’s decision defying the Supreme Courts’ directives to provide the health care and treatment of COVID-19 free of cost, NC has pointed out that the government is growing irresponsible and skipping the responsibility of ensuring the right to good health and right to life to the people.
In a cabinet decision taken last week and made public yesterday, the government had said that the government will not bear the cost of the ordinary public’s treatment against the COVID-19 pandemic and had asked the public to ‘take of their health and treatment on their own’.
Issuing a Press release on Monday, NC has reminded that the government cannot skip its responsibility of ensuring safety against infectious disease.
“This irresponsible decision of the government shows that the government does not listen to the Supreme Court, public and media as well,” the release signed by NC spokesperson Bishwa Prakash Sharma reads, “If the government does not listen to the court, public and media, who will it listen to?”
NC has citied that the uncertainty of the COVID-19 Hospitals, slackness in the preparation of community isolation center, lack of enough ventilators, black marketing of Remdesivir, unmanaged quarantine and unsystematic dead body management all establish the fact that the government is irresponsible and lacks a sense of humanity.
“The government’s lack of responsibility and the whimsical decisions it has made one after another raise question about the intellectual and physical existence of the government,” the release says, “ The government has disillusioned the people who could have still been thinking there is the government in the country.”
NC has pointed out that the government should have curtailed the wasteful and luxury expenses like the fund provided to the lawmakers and Dashain allowance and should have spent the money to safeguard the life of the public.
NC has asked the PM and his government to be more sensitive towards the woes and suffering of the people and ensure the test and treatment against COVID-19 pandemic free of cost.
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