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Kids facing eye cancer threat in south Bengal

Dr Priyansha Chatterjee, chairperson of Dvita hospital here said: "We've observed the irreversible cylindrical eye power of the kids has increased substantially due to the exorbitant exposure." Dr Amit Das, cornea surgeon of the hospital said, “Cases of retinoblastoma - commonly called eye cancer - have also been recorded in the South Bengal hospitals in recent days, which needs further studies.”

3 kids die of viral fever in Bihar

An official of Bihar Health Department said that 830 children with viral fever visited the OPDs of different private and government hospitals across the state till Tuesday evening and 113 of them were admitted in children's wards

How Delhi’s hospitals are gearing up for kids ahead of third wave

Covid ICU wards are being prepared under the supervision of the Special Task Force for Children at Chacha Nehru Children's Hospital, LNJP Hospital, GTB and at several other state-run hospitals. Two genome sequencing labs are planned to identify the virus variants at the Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Hospital and the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences (ILBS) in Delhi.