'OPERATION LIFELINE’ DELAYED Reuters’ report from Krishna Nagar
KUWAIT TIMES (Kuwait) September 22, 1971
The Indian Government’s emergency relief operation to save tens of thousands of East Pakistan refugee children from dying of malnutrition is unlikely to begin for another month, according to information available here. And even then “Operation Lifeline” is expected to start functioning at only a seventh of the planned scale. Dr. A. K. Koleh, Chief Medical Officer of West Bengal’s Nadia District, of which Krishnanagar is the capital, told Reuter that he had received a letter today from the Health Ministry in Calcutta asking him to make immediate preparations to set up 15 nutritional therapy units for children in the District.
The Indian Government’s emergency relief operation to save tens of thousands of East Pakistan refugee children from dying of malnutrition is unlikely to begin for another month, according to information available here. And even then “Operation Lifeline” is expected to start functioning at only a seventh of the planned scale. Dr. A. K. Koleh, Chief Medical Officer of West Bengal’s Nadia District, of which Krishnanagar is the capital, told Reuter that he had received a letter today from the Health Ministry in Calcutta asking him to make immediate preparations to set up 15 nutritional therapy units for children in the District.
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