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Swasthya Bhavan

Healthcare services likely to be hit as more medical staff fall to virus

Swasthya Bhavan has directed that students’ hostels be vacated and they be asked to return home. Around 70 doctors and nurses of N R S Hospital and their 80 colleagues at Calcutta National Medical College are in home isolations after contracting the infection. At Chittaranjan Seva Sadan in south Kolkata, 36 doctors have tested Covid positive; the figure at the dental college is more than 30.

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