Kolkata: 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 yesterday read.
The doctor, an MD, was posted at Barasat District
Hospital in North 24 Parganas district.
He claimed in the posts that 500 people were admitted
at the hospital on October 6 and wrote 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.
Opposition parties have been alleging that the Mamata
Banerjee government is trying to suppress the number of deaths
because of dengue in the state.
