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The state government on Thursday almost completed distribution of Covid-19 vaccine doses to the sites in Calcutta and other parts of Bengal that have cold storage points and was ready with the list of people to be vaccinated on Saturday.
According to the initial plan, the doses will be administered four days a week, said a health department official.
“On other two days of the week, other immunisation programmes will be held. Sunday is a holiday. The Covid vaccine plan has been prepared in a way that other immunisation programmes are not affected. This is being followed in other parts of the country, too,” said the official.
Commission order to six hospitals West Bengal Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission asked hospitals to pay compensation to patients
The West Bengal Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission on Thursday ordered several private hospitals to pay compensation to patients or their families.
Woodlands Hospital was asked to pay Rs 50,000 to a patient’s family for putting pressure on them to shift the patient, who was critically ill and on ventilation, to another hospital after the person tested positive for Covid, retired judge Ashim Banerjee, the chairperson of the commission, said.
The hospital argued they were not treating Covid patients in June, when this incident happened. But the commission said that was no excuse for the hospital to ask the family to shift the patient.
Updated Dec 17, 2020 | 12:29 IST
Many of these children are getting cardiogenic shock, necessitating ICU care. The symptoms include high-grade fever, rashes, etc. Kolkata doctors report PIMS in children after Covid, many get cardiogenic shock | Photo Credit: AP
Kolkata: Covid is now affecting children in a different way, through Paediatric Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome, according to the city doctors. It is not just adults who are battling post-Covid complications now, but also children.
Many of these children are getting cardiogenic shock, necessitating ICU care. Priyankar Pal, professor of paediatrics at the Institute of Child Health in the city told the Times of India, “The symptoms include high-grade fever, rashes, red eyes and gastrointestinal problems and have some resemblance to Kawasaki disease.”