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Kolkata: The state Health department is likely to carry out a probe to determine the quality of the surgical threads that are supplied to various hospitals and medical colleges across Bengal. After the NRS Medical College and Hospital incident where two infants died allegedly because of the use of poor quality surgical threads, the Health department is contemplating to conduct a detailed probe into the process as to how the surgical threads are being supplied to the hospitals. Incidentally, two infants in the NRS Medical College and Hospital recently died after the doctors had allegedly applied poor quality threads during the surgeries. The NRS Medical College and Hospital has already ordered an inquiry into the death of two infants. It was alleged that surgical threads used for stitching snapped more than once..