Former Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot has demanded setting up a high-level scientific investigation committee to ascertain the root cause behind unusual rise in cases of cardiac arrests among healthy and young adults or otherwise medically fit patients, in a recent (post Covid) scenario.
The senior Congress leader and 3-timer ex CM, virtually dismissed the government’s ‘dissatisfactory reply’ to the questions raised by opposition members and the Opposition Leader (LoP) Tika Ram Jully in the state assembly yesterday. He has written a post on social media handle “X”(Twitter) on Thursday, to share his concerns with the MLAs.
Gehlot said, “LoP Jully and other members had raised the issues on Wednesday to express their worries over spurt in the instances of cardiac arrests in youths and even children. This indeed is a serious trend of sudden collapse of otherwise healthy looking youths, even doctors and sports – persons, these sudden deaths have been giving rise to suspicion and fear among the people. The government can not shed off the responsibility just dismissing the trend as a usual phenomenon.”
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The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) in its recent reports (July 2025) have found no relation between vaccines and the trend of cardiac arrests. However, research studies on the impact of the long COVID condition and the vaccine (jabs) were still being done (and inclusive), he wrote.
Our previous government (2018 – 2023) had announced the setting up of a Center for Post Covid Rehabilitation at Rajasthan University of Health Sciences (RUHS) Hospital in the 2023 state budget. The present government did not further the proposal otherwise, the research could have been concluded by this time and some way out could have been found out.
Therefore, I urge upon the Centre and the state government too, for setting up a high level scientific investigation committee to find the genuine cause behind the spurt in cardiac arrests and save lives of otherwise healthy people.