She said that she would speak to the other chief ministers in this regard adding that she sat mum for three hours at the video conference with Prime Minister Narendra Modi today as there was no scope for the state government to give opinion.
To put it bluntly as we must, this is almost institutionalised negativism. A more evasive approach to healthcare would be difficult to imagine.
Indeed, fears have been expressed that the repercussions of Covid-19 could be deadlier than the virus itself. While coronavirus has left families in even the richest countries in hunger, it could mean starvation for the poorest, as in parts of Odisha as reports in this newspaper affirm.
A couple of days ago, minister of Civil Aviation, Hardeep Singh Puri has announced that it is planned that Air India, Spicejet and Bluedart will airlift another 220 tonnes of critical medical cargo in the next three days.
Mr Dutta has been admitted in the Balurghat hospital where doctors had to apply five stitches on his head. Local people have demanded proper police action against the accused.
“We collected the throat swab of the patient before he died. We have sent the samples for tests, but the report is awaited. We cannot say whether the patient had been suffering from Covid-19 until we have the test reports,” said the Deputy chief medical officer of health-2 in Alipurduar, Dr Subarna Goswami.
The 60 year-old doctor, the first medical professional to die of the disease in Bengal, was undergoing treatment at the critical care unit of a private hospital at Salt Lake for the past couple of weeks with severe breathing trouble, cough and cold and other co-morbidities such as diabetes and cardiac ailments. No further coronavirus patients were discharged from hospitals in the last 24 hours.
There was hardly any sport spared by the bloodcurdling disease, with the world’s biggest events coming to be shelved and the story inexorably hitting its climax when the 2020 Olympics got put off till next year.
With his exemplary work and transparency, he managed the pandemic well. All details were published on a daily basis on the government website. He rolled out a comprehensive Rs 20,000- crore economic package even before the Union government declared a lockdown.
A social organization jointly with life care blood bank today conducted a blood donation camp at Janai. Maintaining social distancing, blood was donated by forty donors for the thalassemia – affected children who are in urgent need of blood transfusion.
