During a review meeting with Deputy CM Manish Sisodia, PWD and Health Department officials said the construction work of most of the hospitals will be completed by the end of this year, whereas others will be completed by the mid 2023.
September 19, 2022According to the health department, the last time the state had recorded more than 200 daily new cases was during the end of February.
June 17, 2022Dr Thomas today visited Chinsurah hospital to take stock of work at the hospital funded by the central government health department.
April 27, 2022The state had reported 3.31 lakh cases on May 27, 2021, the highest in the state, at the peak of the illness in May 2021.
March 16, 2022When the health authorities conducted the RT-PCR test, he came positive. His genome sequencing test also came positive.
January 1, 2022The state health department headquarters Swasthya Bhaban at Salt Lake today has sounded alert directing CMOHs to strengthen surveillance on health condition of people entering into their respective local districts and city from foreign countries where the new variant has been found.
December 1, 2021The state currently has 5,587 active COVID-19 cases while as many as 10,11,482 patients including 653 on Monday, recovered from the highly infectious disease.
September 28, 2021The Health Department has so far administered 9,51,267 vaccines which included 6,74,697 first dose and the remaining 2,76,530 were the second dose.
September 24, 2021The department will be conducting the serum surveillance test in the top five and the bottom five districts and is for reconfirming the testing details of the previous survey
August 24, 2021At least 40 cases of dengue have been reported in Darjeeling district so far this year, which, officials said was much higher compared to last year.
August 7, 2021The state health department, headed by the chief minister Miss Mamata Banerjee has formed an expert committee to conduct surveillance on Zika infections.
July 11, 2021Of the new cases, 1775 were recorded in quarantine centres and the rest were detected during contact tracing.
July 1, 2021In their bid to intensify the Covid vaccination drive in the district, the health department officials have decided to hold camps to administer the Covid vaccine to people in their vicinity dividing the entire population of the district into 200 clusters of 20000 people.
June 16, 2021The district health department has decided to build 59 health centres in village areas in the district and work on the same is going on with seven of them already completed.
March 15, 2021Darj, Siliguri, Naxalbari hospitals ready, Exercise in B'ghat, Hili G'rampur in S Dinajpur
January 8, 2021According to the guidelines issued by the Centre, the Co-WIN will be used to track enlisted people for the vaccination and anti-coronavirus vaccines on a real-time basis.
December 21, 2020Health experts fear that co-infection of Covid and dengue could trigger severity in both the diseases in the days to come.
October 30, 2020