Baharampur (West Bengal), June 19: The West Bengal Chief Minister, Buddhadev Bhattacharya, today held a high level meeting with the health department and administration officials here in Murshidabad district on the mystery disease that has claimed lives of 39 children. Bhattacharya told reporters after the meeting with the director of health service, district magistrate and other high-ranking officials that at Lalgola in the Nasipur gram Panchayat area alone 20 children had fallen victim to the undiagnosed disease and another 396 children had been affected. The Chief Minister said that as of now there was no shortage of medicine which had plaugued effective treatment of the affected.
He promised to send doctors to fill vacancies after a cabinet meeting in Kolkata on June 24. He said that three medical camps were functioning in the area to treat affected children.
Meanwhile, the congress has withdrawn the 12-hour bandh it had called tomorrow in the area after its local unit chief, Adhir Chowdhury, had a meeting with the Chief Minister.
However, the Suci, which had called a 24-hour bandh in the area tomorrow, is yet to follow suit. Bureau Report