Kolkata, Oct 7 (UNI) City's premier state owned health care facility - Calcutta Medical

College and Hospital - has sought appointment of new medics to cope up the increasing

number of pandemic patients after its about 40 working Professors and doctors reported

sick after catching coronavirus.

Calcutta Medical College and Hospital's super Manju Banerjee in a letter to the state

health department, which is monitoring the entire covid situation, has sought fresh batch

of medics to cope up with the increasing pandemic patients after its nearly 40 working

medics fell sick of covid-19.

All the 40 medics, 12 of them professors cum doctors, have fallen sick following

covid-19. All the sick medics were attached to the covid wards. The sick medicos

either have been hospitalised or went in home quarantine, an official said.

The hospital was also in the process to add 100 more covid-19 beds and needed

more medical professionals to cope up the situation.

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