KOLKATA: With the number of confirmed monkeypox cases gradually on the rise in India, the state health department has intensified its preparedness for surveillance and medical care facility to isolate and treat the suspected or confirmed cases.
In Kolkata, Infectious Diseases and Beliaghata General (ID&BG) Hospital has kept its infrastructure and manpower ready to isolate and treat monkeypox cases while ICMR-NICED is ready to test samples from the suspected patients. Bengal, however, has not got any confirmed case of the viral infection till now.