State govt has not submitted true records on dengue: Bengal Congress
New Delhi: The West Bengal Congress accused the state government of not submitting the true records on the dengue situation in the state.
State Congress chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury met Union Health Secretary Preeti Sudan today and submitted a memorandum to her on the situation in West Bengal following an outbreak of dengue and other vector-borne diseases, which he said had claimed many lives in the state.
"I was shocked when the health ministry told me that the Bengal government had reported that dengue cases had come down in the state compared to last year, that it had reported only 10 thousand cases. The state government has not given the right report regarding the situation," Chowdhury told reporters after his meeting with the health secretary.
He alleged that despite people dying due to the vector-borne diseases in the state, the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) government was keeping mum and not reporting it to the Centre.
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