West Bengal government considers setting up of exclusive hospitals for COVID-19 in 23 districts
Kolkata/UNI: The West Bengal government is considering setting up exclusive and dedicated Coronavirus-related hospital, one each in the 23 districts of the state for any eventuality.
The government is already in the process of converting state premier Calcutta Medical College and Hospital in central part of the city with about 3000-bed facilities and one at Rajarhat in eastern part of greater Kolkata.
State health chief Ajay Chakraborty has sent relevant information and sought data from the concerned district officials as to how a full fledged hospital could be converted exclusively for Novel Coronavirus patients.
The government has been exploiting all possible opportunities to check further spread of the deadly virus.
The state on Monday recorded the second death after a 46-year-old woman, mother of three, died of coronaviurs at the North Bengal Medical College and Hospital at the wee hours. The woman was from Kalimpong.
The demise happened eight days after a 57-year-old man died in a private hospital in Kolkata.
So far 22 people have been diagnosed with COVID 19 in West Bengal and they are mostly from the city and have history of foreign trips.
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