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Baby discharged after CM intervenes

By Our Special Correspondent

KOLKATA, FEB. 16. TH e West Bengal Chief Minister, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, enabled the parents of a 44-day-old baby girl take her home today from a nursing home in south Kolkata, where she had been admitted a day after birth in a very critical condition — anaemic, under-weight and suffering from jaundice.

Though she had recovered and was fit for discharge, the authorities refused to let her go till the dues were paid.

Unable to pay the bills for the baby's treatment, a distraught father, Sanjoy Ghosh, was asked to meet the Chief Minister in response to an appeal for financial assistance. Mr. Bhattacharjee gave him a cheque of Rs. 40,000 from the Chief Minister's Relief Fund to help him pay the nursing home and take his daughter home.

Earlier in the day, an engineer of the Bally municipality, Chandiprasad Ghosh, had left a cheque of Rs. 15,000 with the Chief Minister's secretariat at the Writers' Building as his contribution. Mr. Ghosh's ordeal also seemed to have left the Chief Minister somewhat irked.

"Is this the situation in our nursing homes,'' he wondered. "It is both inhuman and strange... to have confined a baby [inside a nursing home even after the treatment was over]. We will see what can be done,'' Mr. Bhattacharjee said.

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