In drill, N Bengal hospitals check Covid preparedness
Health department sources said nine super specialty hospitals, district hospitals and medical colleges in north Bengal reviewed the infrastructure today.
Health department sources said nine super specialty hospitals, district hospitals and medical colleges in north Bengal reviewed the infrastructure today.
The chief minister, who was accorded a warm welcome in Kurseong, also said that the state government would hold elections to the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) after the fresh electoral rolls are prepared.
On 25 October she will hold a meeting in Kurseong. In the next two days, she would hold administrative review meetings with district officials through video conferences from Uttarkanya.
Administrative officials, however, said three houses were swept away. "Twenty members of the affected families have been shifted to a local SSK," an official said. The incessant rainfall led to waterlogging in some areas.
Addressing an election rally at the Subhashini tea garden field in Kalchini Block in Alipurduar district, Mr Shah also came down heavily on Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee.
Mr Banerjee's visit comes at a time when his arch rival, BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari, today highlighted prospects of the saffron party in north Bengal.
Apart from the day-to-day work, they are arranging for food for the affected families, setting up barricades in containment zones, conducting sanitisation, and distributing masks, sanitisers and PPEs, he said.
A police officer of the Siliguri Metropolitan Police (SMP), will be one of the five officers from north Bengal who…
