The West Bengal Health Department has decided to form Rapid Response Teams (RRTs) to treat critical COVID-19 patients, a senior official said on September 28.

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The RRTs will include one anesthesiologist and one medicine specialist to treat such patients, he said. The step has been taken to strengthen the treatment and patient care services at designated COVID-19 hospitals across the state, the official said. "Specialists and other medical officers so deployed must stay near the COVID hospitals," an order issued by the department said.