Expired saline case: Bengal LoP demands immediate arrest of health minister, secy [Video]

Leader of Opposition (LoP) in West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, on Tuesday demanded immediate arrest of West Bengal health minister and health secretary in connection with the recent expired saline related deaths.

A woman and the newborn baby of another affected woman died at a government medical college and hospital in West Midnapore district earlier this month, allegedly after being administered expired Ringer’s Lactate solution.

While Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee holds the health portfolio, the state health secretary is Narayan Swarup Nigam.

LoP Adhikari on Tuesday participated in a protest organised by a section of the civic society at Midnapore town where the hospital is located and he raised this demand there.

He claimed that the state government allowed Paschim Bangla Pharmaceuticals Private Limited to continue supplying Ringer’s Lactate to government hospitals in West Bengal even after the same entity was blacklisted by the Karnataka and West Bengal governments.

He also accused the state health departmentof conveniently shifting …