The body of a missing car driver was found today near the ash pond bank of Mejia Thermal Power Station (MTPS) of Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC), close to Latiabeni village today morning by local Gangajalghati police station under Bankura district.
The five medical colleges will instal display boards showing information related to the availability of beds, according to sources at Swasthya Bhawan, health department headquarters at Salt Lake.
The health department, headed by the chief minister Mamata Banerjee issued a notification in this regard today.
PICUs are flooded with adenovirus-affected children after surge in viral disease
Samples would be sent for Covid-19 confirmatory tests in government hospitals’ laboratories equipped with the RT-PCR procedure system
Chief Minister, Jai Ram Thakur informed the House about the bus accident in the morning.
With steep hike in number of cases the state government has made the MCH a premier novel coronavirus treatment centre accommodating around 500 indoor beds for COVID patients in some buildings inside the hospital complex.
They had also gheraoed the inspection team from Swasthya Bhaban urging them to withdraw its decision to provide treatment only to patients affected by Covid-19.
The authorities have also formed a five-member inquiry committee headed by Dr (professor) Asim Ghosh, director of the Regional Institute of Opthalmology (RIO), to probe the charge of selling patients’ meals.
Doctors are bound by the Hippocratic Oath and are obliged to do everything in their power to help patients and the wider society. Medics following this in letter and spirit may be rare these days. But a group of doctors in Kerala have shown that their species is not extinct, finds Rita Joseph
