The West Bengal chief minister, Mamata Banerjee, inaugurated and laid the foundation stone for a bouquet of projects at the IPGMER-SSKM Hospital and annexe building on Thursday. She renovated a 100-bed paediatric medicine ward and a four-storied state-of-the-art sports medicine unit. She also laid the foundation stone for a 10-storied 124-bed private cabin building which will consist of outdoor, laboratory, radiological services and operation theatre, a seven-storied hostel building with advanced cancer treatment facilities and a 50-bed critical care block at the Kolkata Police Hospital with operation theatre, dialysis, emergency, isolation ward services. (Right) nurses click selfies on the occasion
Photos: Suvendu Das
(Bottom) Keeping in tune with the Christmas celebrations, shopkeepers at New Market decorate their shops on Thursday. (Top) a woman sells statuettes of Santa Claus and Mother Mary
Photos: Suvendu Das
Victoria Memorial, Kolkata upgraded a room for ‘mother and child’ near the entrance of the museum. It is equipped with comfortable couches to make the museum visit of nursing mothers more relaxing and pleasant
Victoria Memorial, Kolkata/FacebookStudents of the Calcutta Medical College and Hospital during a hunger strike demanding students’ council elections
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