With the number of dengue cases on the rise in several parts of the city and the state, the administration, especially the health department, is taking various steps to ensure that people, during the festive season, are not inconvenienced.
According to the health department’s instructions, district-block-division hospitals, medical college doctors, additional superintendents, assistant superintendents should stay put in the city. Doctors and health workers cannot leave their workplace without the permission of the authorities. OPDs of hospitals should remain open on all days except Ashtami.
Earlier, Mayor Firhad Hakim suggested individual strategies with councillors and representatives of each area to contain dengue. He also issued instructions to prepare necessary infrastructure at all hospitals during the five-day Durga Puja festival.
Authorities have been asked to make a list of areas with high incidences of dengue.
Meanwhile, the situation in Bidhannagar, both the 24 Parganas and Howrah districts has been critical. Dengue infection is also spreading rapidly in the north. The government is on a war footing and awareness campaigns, spraying of disinfectants on open drains etc are going on in full swing.
Kolkata-bound Tevaga Express ‘mows down’ man
Tension prevailed on Thursday morning at Patharghata Ustar area under Banshihari police station of Dakshin Dinajpur district after one Baburam Saren, 52, was mowed down by the Kolkata-bound Tevaga Express.
Following commotion in the area, the Banshihari police rushed to the spot and sent the body for post-mortem. The police are probing if it was an accident or suicide.
The deceased Baburam was a resident of Chaksadulla area of Ward No. 14 of Buniyadpur Municipality.
