Frantic parents with their kids at the enquiry section of BC Roy hospital as more cases of fever and respiratory diseases were reported. Four more children died of acute respiratory infection, including one due to the adenovirus, in West Bengal in the last 24 hours. The one succumbing to the adenovirus infection was a six-month-old boy from Dakshineswar area of North 24 Parganas district who was admitted to the Dr BC Roy Post Graduate Institute of Paediatric Sciences in Kolkata. He died on Sunday. The remaining three, including a seven-month-old, who hailed from Duttapukur, Haroa and Bangaon of the same district, died of pneumonia, the officials said. The seven-month-old was first admitted to the Bongaon Hospital with fever and breathing complications and was shifted to the BC Roy Hospital where he was kept in the intensive care unit
Amit Datta
