Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)  president Mayawati on Thursday said the claim of "no deaths due to lack of oxygen" during the COVID-19 second wave was very unfortunate and sad.  She said such statements were creating a distrust among people of the government's ability to tackle any future wave.

 In a number of tweets, Mayawati said, "Due to lack of oxygen, especially in the second wave of corona, there were panic and deaths in India. To deal with it, the central government even had to take foreign help and this is not hidden from anyone. Yet it is very unfortunate and sad to claim that there have been no deaths due to lack of oxygen."

On July 20, reacting to a question on whether a large number of COVID patients died on roads and in hospitals due to acute shortage of oxygen in the second wave, Union Minister of State for Health Bharati Pravin Pawar in a written reply in Rajya Sabha had stated that health is a state subject and states and union territories regularly report the number of cases and deaths to the Centre.

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