`Deaths played up,’ Mamata sees a real opposition in dengue
KOLKATA: No one wants to face death, it is threat greater than poverty, economic backwardness and inflation-triggered hunger,’’ admits a former state politician. Though Mamata Banerjee sees a systematic disinformation campaign by laboratories `for spinning more money’ for various tests, yet threat isn’t unreal, feels doctors.Incidentally, dengue turned out to be a deadlier disease even in terms of ability to spending money to get rid of dengue afflictions by good doctors who are equally expensive in private nursing homes.
Last year we had to spend more than 45 thousands rupees to get my wife treated. For our family, if annual income is calculated, it was a huge amount, we can hardly afford. But for life we had to spend,’’ said Amit Ghosh of Shayambazar, Kolkata. While Mamata Banerjee sees profiteering as reasons for disinformation campaigns, but “threat isn’t all that unreal,’’ feel even the some of the top state Congress leaders and doctors.
And dengue which is spreading and tightening its grip and would continue to till winter lasts, emerges as a greater political threat. Though Banerjee quoted figures of death before reporters in other states, Delhi, Maharashtra, Tamilnadu, Uttar Pradesh and a few other states, while telling people to be more careful about mosquitoes and fevers and not to get into `negative media campaigns.’
