By writer to www.opindia.com
On the size of accountable behaviour, West Bengal’s CM, Mamata Banerjee is competing exhausting to share a spot with China’s Xi Jinping. From fudging information to opening companies at whim to not cooperating with the Centre, Bengal’s didi (as Mamata is popularly identified within the state) is presenting a mannequin of how NOT to deal with corona.
The central group that visited Kolkata, Howrah and few different districts within the state to evaluate the scenario stated that West Bengal had the very best mortality fee within the nation, at 12.eight per cent, however shunning all details and figures, Mamata Banerjee’s authorities has been closely counting on the committee of “specialists” it has constituted and reviewed repeatedly to sort out the disaster in India.
By the way, the members of those panels have all the time been rigorously cherry-picked by the chief minister herself and allegiance in direction of Mamata Banerjee is the one factor which is required to make it to those ‘prestigious’ groups.
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eliminated from the put up and shunted off to a nondescript hospital after in 2015 he agreed to carry out dialysis on the pet canine (there aren’t any dialysis services for animals in veterinary hospitals in Kolkata) belonged to an in depth relative of senior Trinamool chief and West Bengal Medical Council president Dr Nirmal Majhi.
The weird request for performing dialysis on the pet canine reached Dr R.N. Pandey, the then head of IPGMER’s Nephrology division in 2015. Dr Pandey forwarded the request to Mitra, who allegedly agreed to it.
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censured and warned the trio of Mitra, Pandey and Majhi. Mitra, who protested his removing and termed his switch as a demotion, had threatened to resign. He was then made an Officer on Particular Obligation (OSD) to the state well being division after which the Director of Medical Schooling (DME). It turns into crucial to notice right here that the West Bengal state division is headed by the chief minister Mamata Banerjee herself.
Mamata Banerjee and her committee of ‘specialists’ a hoax
The brand new committee, named ‘Covid Administration & Containment Committee’ headed by Dr Pradip Kumar Mitra because the state coordinator, has been given the duty of overseeing the functioning of testing laboratories, remedy services and protocols for coronavirus optimistic sufferers and different associated issues.
This committee is preceded by one other one. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had the structure of a ‘Cupboard Committee on Covid Administration’ within the fag-end of final month.
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That four-member committee was headed by finance minister Amit Mitra. That committee, too, had been criticised because it didn’t have the well being minister (Mamata Banerjee holds the well being portfolio) in it.
Previous to this one, Mamata Banerjee introduced the formation of a worldwide group of specialists that can assist the Bengal authorities formulate coverage choices to sort out the Covid-19 disaster. Known as ‘International Advisory Board for Covid Response Coverage in West Bengal’, the group includes of eight members led by Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee, the economist who advised Congress on the ill-conceived NYAY. Right here, Dr Sukumar Mukherjee was a member.
Dr Sukumar Mukherjee, a veteran medical practitioner, rheumatologist and inner medication specialist, with the duty to move this division, is the physician who was entrusted with the duty to move the committee created previous to this one is a physician with a severely tainted previous.
Dr Sukumar Mukherjee stands indicted in India’s worst medical negligence case: Anuradha Saha demise case in 1998. However his proximity to Mamata not solely made him a everlasting member of whichever committee the CM was forming to sort out the pandemic however prior to now, it had additionally introduced him the membership of the West Bengal Medical Institution Regulatory Fee in 2017.
Apart from, Dr Thomas Frieden, who was responsible of sexual assault in New York 2018, was additionally part of this prestigious group shaped by none apart from, Mamata Banerjee.
Previous to this committee, Mamata Banerjee, on March 26 said that the division had arrange a 12-member “committee of specialists” to advise the federal government on numerous technical points associated to the struggle in opposition to coronavirus. The committee was shaped to “advise the federal government on the place and the right way to arrange quarantine services within the state” and likewise suggest the “remedy protocol” for sufferers to be adopted throughout hospitals within the state. WB CM Mamata Banerjee had entrusted Dr Sukumar Mukherjee with the duty to move this division.
Like Dr Sukumar Mukherjee and Dr Thomas Frieden, Dr Pradip Kumar Mitra can be indispensable for Mamata Banerjee. That is in all probability the explanation why, regardless of his tainted previous, this physician like the opposite two has been roped in as Mamata Banerjee’s panel of specialists.
In late-March, the state authorities shaped what’s popularly known as a ‘demise audit committee’ that was tasked with auditing deaths of all Covid-19 contaminated sufferers. The committee was empowered as the one one to certify if such a affected person had died of the coronavirus or co-morbidities.
This committee is headed by Abhijeet Choudhury, a gastroenterologist. “How can a gastroenterologist head such a committee? A virologist or epidemiologist ought to have been requested to move this committee,” stated a senior epidemiologist serving on the state-run tremendous speciality SSKM Hospital in Kolkata.
West Bengal sitting on a “time-bomb”
The suppression of details and fudging of information has turn into a serious fear for authorities and well being specialists in West Bengal, which has now snowballed into an enormous controversy between the Trinamool Congress-led West Bengal authorities and health-care specialists.
The health-care specialists believe that the scenario in Bengal may be very grave because the Mamata Banerjee-led authorities has not been giving actual information to evaluate the precise seriousness of the pandemic. From threats to docs for whistleblowing in opposition to the state authorities in opposition to lack of services to allegations of state authorities illegally disposing of useless our bodies, there have been critical allegations in opposition to the Mamata Banerjee authorities in Bengal.
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