Doc posts- govt suppressing facts related to dengue; suspended by health dept
The West Bengal health department has suspended a doctor for alleging in Facebook posts that the state government is suppressing facts relating to the dengue menace in the state. Arunachal Dutta Choudhury’s posts on the social media amount to “misinterpretation in the public and (are) derogatory to the hospital administration,” the suspension order issued by the state health department on Friday read. The doctor, an MD, was posted at Barasat District Hospital in North 24 Parganas district. In the post he said, 500 people were admitted to the hospital on October 6 and mentioned about his struggle to diagnose the patients many of whom were lying on the floor. According to the health department, there have been 19 deaths in state-run hospitals since January and over 18,000 cases were reported in various government clinical establishments. -PTC News
