Summary:
The Chief Minister has announced a unique project under which a Center of Excellence for Infectious Disease Management is coming up at Beliaghata ID Hospital. Six new seats for DM in the field of infectious diseases for every year will be introduced. These seats will be created at the new department of Infectious Diseases and Advanced Microbiology at School of Tropical Medicine. The Chief Minister also announced the formation of the state's first plasma bank which is coming up at the Institute of Immuno-Hemeotology at Kolkata Medical College and Hospital. "The Mamata Banerjee government has come up with the idea of constructing a center of excellence for research on infectious diseases..