Calcutta High court asks west Bengal government to come up with complete dengue statistics

Kolkata, November 15: The main complaint regarding Dengue against West Bengal State government is that it is trying to suppress the original statistics of Dengue. From oppositions to common mass, doctors, everyone has been demanding the original statistics. Now Calcutta High Court wants the state to come up with the latest death toll from the disease, including figures from private hospitals, by Wednesday. The court described the affidavit from the state as “vague”.

The time limit has been given for the information is one day. Up-to-date statistics has been asked from the state. Already seven Public Interest litigations are filed against the state. In that context, the state filed its affidavit which did not have exact numbers. As per WHO guidelines, the state has to mention the number of deaths in Private hospitals also.

A professor from Jadavpur University, Debarshi Chakraborty also filed a PIL. Counsel for him, Srijit Chakraborty asked that how can be the number of dengue death remain same from October 4 to November 9. In a report to center, state mentioned 19 deaths whereas in an affidavit the same number was reported. It is easily deductible that the statistics cannot be true.

Advocate Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharyya, the counsel appearing for the first petitioner Rabishankar Chattopadhyay, said "The report confirms our agony that the state government is hiding the real facts. Every day, newspapers report at least one dengue death. The state has not challenged any of these reports. We have information that more than 180 people have died of dengue across the state.”