New Delhi: After Malda, infant deaths were reported from the West Bengal state-run Behrampore Hospital in Murshidabad district, where nine babies have died during the last 48 hours. Sources said they were suffering from Pneumonia. According to him, the state health department has decided to open a 70-bed separate paediatric unit in the Malda Sadar Hospital within a month to cope with the situation. Besides, the number of doctors, nurses and para-medical staff would be increased shortly, he said.
However, West Bengal Mamata Banjeree defended her government on January 19 in the case of several infants dying in Malda, blaming the media and criticising her party workers for blowing events out of proportion.
Mamata had reiterated that in eight months of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) rule, crib deaths came down by 2 per cent and said that the government will bring it down by 25 per cent.
Claiming that 40,000 kids died during the Left rule, she had said that a large number of children in the state are undernourished.
