Kolkata/IBNS: Two days after a doctor-cum-senior health official with West Bengal health department diagnosed with Covid-19 died at Salt Lake AMRI hospital, another renowned physician from Kolkata, who had tested positive for the virus, passed away in the same hospital on Monday late night, reports said.
According to reports, the senior orthopedic surgeon, who was attached with south Kolkata's privately-run Belle Vue Clinic, was under ventilator support at AMRI for last few days.
This is the second Covid-19 death in the medical fraternity in West Bengal while nearly 40 other health professionals, including doctors, junior doctors, nurses, attendants and non-medical staffers, of several government and private health facilities have tested Covid-19 positive and undergoing treatment.
However, state formed audit committee, which is declaring Covid deaths in West Bengal, is presently evaluating the deaths of these two doctors and the committee will confirm which was the immediate cause of these two deaths — Covid-19 or comorbidity, according to state health officials.
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