Bengal Lamp residents live under dengue fear

Kolkata | Tuesday | 20th November, 2018

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KOLKATA: Far from getting a respite from dengue, residents of Azamgarh slum, an area close to the abandoned Bengal Lamp factory, continue to live under the threat. Reports available from the Azamgarh slum have confirmed that four other residents have been undergoing treatment over the past four days, after having tested positive for dengue. But latest reports from the locality point to a fresh dengue outbreak. “With the death of two neighbours and the spread of dengue, we are living in fear. Mukesh Gupta is another youth who has been undergoing treatment at a government hospital in south Kolkata.Apart from the four, many others have been down with fever..