West Bengal government bans usage of mobile phones inside hospitals

The West Bengal government has banned the usage of mobile phones inside the hospital premises claiming that they are a risky as they could carry the coronavirus around. BJP alleges the move is a reaction to a video that has gone viral, of two bodies lying in a ward full of COVID-19 patients.Doctors, health workers and patients have been banned from using cell phones inside hospitals, the state chief secretary Rajiva Sinha said today. Landlines and intercom would be installed for the use of patients in isolation wards, he said.Union Minister Babul Supriyo, in a tweet this morning, linked the move to the video that he, too, has posted several times since Monday. The video was apparently taken by a COVID-19 patient inside an isolation ward at one of Kolkata’s nodal hospitals, MR Bangur.The most shocking part of the video is two dead bodies lying in the ward, waiting to be removed, even as other patients roam around or wait for medical attention.