West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s remarks that her infection had become “septic” because of wrong treatment has triggered a political row with leaders of Opposition parties raising questions on the medical infrastructure of the State government.
The Chief Minister holds the health portfolio and in her last known visit to any hospital for treatment, Ms. Banerjee went to SSKM Hospital also known as Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research. “Owing to a wrong treatment, my infection became septic. The way saline channels are made in the arm, I was in that situation for seven days. I could not get up,” Ms. Banerjee had said on Wednesday.
The Chief Minister made the remarks while trying to explain the long absence from the State Secretariat. Ms. Banerjee had said that she had been working from her home and no work of the State government was pending at her end.
