1. Mob Barges Into Paediatric ICU After 4-Year-Old’s Death
The death of a four-year-old child led to a mob attacking the Institute of Child Health (ICH) on Thursday morning. In addition to damaging hospital property, the mob barged into the paediatric intensive care unit (PICU), exposing other critically ill children to potential infections. The hospital has lodged a complaint with Karaya police station, but none has been arrested so far.
Sana Sajad from Karaya was brought to the emergency unit of the Park Circus hospital around 2:15 am on Thursday. According to her family, she was suffering from fever and bouts of vomiting over the past two days. They took her to the hospital after she had suffered two convulsions on Wednesday night. According to doctors the girl was in severe shock and suffered a cardiac arrest immediately on arrival. However,the patient’s family alleged the child did not get adequate treatment.
(Source: The Times Of India)
2. Feeding Rooms May Be Made Mandatory In New Malls In Calcutta
New mayor Firhad Hakim’s promise to do “something” about mothers not finding the privacy to breastfeed their babies in public places has led to the municipal corporation deciding to incorporate in its building rules a provision for feeding rooms at new commercial centres like malls.
The move comes just over a fortnight after the mother of a seven-month-old infant was allegedly made to go from one floor to another at South City Mall to find a room where she could breastfeed the baby. She was then allegedly abused on the property’s official Facebook page for lodging a complaint.
(Source: The Telegraph)
3. Poison In Air: Kids In Sick Bay Miss School, Exams
What started after Diwali has reached its peak now. Some city schools have reported that more than 10 kids per section have been staying home because of severe cold and cough or respiratory distress. Almost every school has complained that this has become a routine at the start of winter every year and their day infirmaries are always full with kids suffering from asthma attacks and fever.
This being the time for examinations, class teachers have been flooded with requests from parents requesting a rescheduling. Missing an examination gets the student a zero, negatively affecting his or her average since most schools follow a continuous and comprehensive testing pattern where the child’s progress is not based only on terminal exams. This forces parents to send indisposed kids to school, who report sick after some time and land up in the infirmary. Bringing inhalers to school to relieve breathing stress has also become routine.
(Source: The Times Of India)
4. Dhapa Capacity Boost To Enhance Water Supply
Prodded by the chief minister’s office, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has planned to augment the capacity of Dhapa water treatment plant that supplies potable water to large areas located off EM Bypass and places adjacent to Jadavpur.
According to sources in the KMC water supply department, the authorities are keen on enhancing the capacity of the water treatment plant by10 million gallons per day. Currently, the plant produces 30 million gallons water per day. “When the project is over, more than 2 lakh people living in areas like Baghajatin, Santoshpur (Jadavpur), Garfa, Haltu and places off EM Bypass such as Patuli, Mukundapur, Kalikapur, Madurdaha and parts of Anwar Shah Road connector will reap the benefits,” said a KMC water supply department senior official.
(Source: The Times Of India)
5. Shops Along Kalighat Temple's Boundary Wall To Be Relocated
As many as 87 shops lining the boundary wall of the Kalighat temple will be relocated from Monday as part of a project to expand and enhance the immediate surroundings of one of India’s most revered places of worship.
The plan includes increasing the span of the boundary wall to bring Kundupukur, the sacred tank where many devotees take a dip, within the temple complex.
The Rs 10-crore redevelopment is a pet project of chief minister Mamata Banerjee, whose home at 30B Harish Chatterjee Street is less than 2km from the shrine.
The Calcutta Municipal Corporation (CMC) will rebuild the six gates to the temple and create a green patch along the stretch of road outside the temple. The floors of the temple complex will be renovated.
(Source: The Times Of India)
6. Trinamul MLA Survives Attack That Leaves 3 Dead Near Calcutta
A bullet-and-bomb attack on a Trinamul Congress MLA’s car at a petrol pump in Joynagar, South 24-Parganas, minutes after he had got off on Thursday evening left his driver and two local party leaders dead.
“Three people in their early 30s died in the attack on a vehicle that local MLA Biswanath Das had used through the day,” a police officer said.
Das had left the car to visit the nearby party office — deviating from his routine of an evening adda at a tea stall by the petrol pump — around five minutes before the attack. As the car pulled up for a refill at the petrol station around 7.45pm, some 10 to 12 gunmen surrounded it.
(Source: The Telegraph)
7. Salt Lake Doctor Assaulted At Home
A psychiatrist in Salt Lake was allegedly manhandled by a woman and five men at her DB Block home over a property dispute on Wednesday afternoon. Police have arrested the main accused, Rinku Chatterjee, and are looking for the others, who had fled the scene after the assault.
The 44-year-old woman, who is an FRCS from the UK, identified the attackers as the caretakers and guards employed by her elder brother, who is a doctor and lives in London. The suspects used to live in the same three-storied building.
“My brother and I have been fighting a legal battle over the possession of the house for the past two years since the death of my father. But these men and Rinku constantly threaten me to move out of the property. I live in constant fear with my two sons aged 10 and 13,” the woman said.
(Source: The Times Of India)
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