New Delhi: In a rare show of solidarity, nearly twenty health ministers representing Indian Union states disputed the World Health Organization’s (WHO) claim that India lost 47 lakh persons to Covid-19, citing it as “baseless, inadmissible, and resulted from faulty counting,” according to the WHO.
At the 14th summit of the Central Council of Health and Family Welfare (CCHFW), an authoritative advisory body that promotes coordination between the Centre and the states, health ministers from various states passed a resolution vehemently opposing to WHO’s estimates of Covid-19 deaths in India. The figures were “unacceptable” to India, according to the report, and the global health organization’s modelling technique was “flawed”.
Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya is chairing the three-day meeting, which began on Thursday in Gujarat’s Kevadia. Mangal Pandey, the health minister of Bihar, said that all ministers had flatly rejected the WHO figures and asked Mandaviya to raise the issue globally.
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