India, Jan. 29 -- Treating GBS patients

MUMBAI: Keeping in view an escalation in the number of patients suffering from the auto-immune disease Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS) in Pune and other cities, chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday ordered public health department to make special arrangements in government hospitals to treat the patients. He also asked the administration to include GBS in the government's Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Jan Arogya Yojana so that the financially impoverished could seek cost-free treatment.

The current GBS case-load in Pune itself is 111. In Kolhapur two patients are being treated in a government hospital, five in Solapur (although they came from outside the city) and three in Nagpur, of which one is on ...