BHUBANESWAR: Health and Family Welfare Minister Naba Kishore Das on Tuesday informed the Assembly that 1,41,874 patients have died in Odisha due to the ailments other than Covid-19 between April and October.
Replying to an unstarred question from Soumya Ranjan Patnaik (BJD), the Minister said reports of poor healthcare services for the non-Covid patients is not true. Patnaik sought a statement from the Minister on the number of non-Covid patients’ death and whether reports of poor services for those patients were true.
In reply to a separate question, the Minister said that Rs 223.87 crore has been spent on testing of the people for Covid-19 and free treatment of positive patients in hospitals.
The information has been provided by 23 districts and the process is on for obtaining the data from other districts, he added.