On Thursday, several families from the areas whose children are hospitalised at the city's government hospitals complained that the primary health set-ups closest to their homes lacked the equipment or the number of doctors necessary to treat acute respiratory infections. Source On Thursday, Razia Bibi, a mother from Basirhat in the North 24-Parganas district, was sitting in an ambulance outside the Dr BC Roy Post Graduate Institute of Paediatric Sciences in Kankurgachhi. "Doctors at the state hospital said they did not have adequate facilities to treat my child if he suddenly developed an acute breathing problem," she said. Her son, who was only six months old, was sobbing in her lap. Razia said, "Jodi dom nitey na parey amader okhane ventilator nei" (if the baby strains to breathe, we don't have ventilators). Abdul Samad, Razia's husband, sells vegetables. The family took an ambulance about 73 kilometres to a state-run hospital that was overrun with p...