The graph of building a city’s medical infrastructure should always be higher than the progressive cases of #COVID19 infection. #LockDown is not a remedy, it is supposed to be an intervention to give administration time to better equip & strengthen medical infrastructure (1/9)

It’s been more than 100 days since we had #LockDown1 and its unfortunate that even after me raising concerns for weeks now, the state leadership has failed woefully in preparing #Pune for this spike in #COVID19 infections, forecasted by most epidemiology studies & models. (2/9)

Pune’s COVID Warriors including our very own Mayor have done a commendable job in helping curtail the spread of virus. I truly believe that 1000 cases/day for city the size of #Pune is alarming only because of the lack of hospital beds & infrastructure for early treatments (3/9)

Enforcing the #Lockdown to disguise failures of the state government and administration is iniquitous to the citizens of our city who were slowly getting back to normalcy. The LockDown has now become a compulsion, which could have easily been prevented with proactive action (4/9)

State Govt has been misleading people with projections & stats of preparedness that are miles away from reality. #Pune has one of the highest mortality & infection growth rates in the country, and yet till date doesn’t have real plans for a 10000+ bed Covid Treatment Center (5/n)

I fail to understand how the State Government and Administration plans to revamp and rebuild Pune's medical infrastructure and prepare for future spikes by administering a 10 day lock down, when they have been miserably unsuccessful to do so in the past 100 days. (6/9)

Leadership that is paramount in times of such crisis is acutely missing. Hon @CMOMaharashtra @OfficeofUT ji stays in our neighboring city and yet has not made a single visit to #Pune in the past 100 days to oversee the preparedness or even encourage the #Covid warriors (7/9)

Let alone a visit to #Pune, Hon CM @OfficeofUT ji has not had a single update or review call / video conference with elected representatives of the City who are working on the ground during this unprecedented Pandemic. Even emails from me are yet to receive a reply. (8/9)

My heart goes out to my fellow #Punekars who were just learning to live with #Covid19 and work towards livelihood. All I can say is that be optimistic, together we will overcome this dark period.
In the meanwhile if you have an issues feel free to contact me or my office. (9/9)