Lucknow: Amid several deaths in Bihar due to brain fever, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath Thursday asked state health authorities to be on guards against any such eventuality. Adityanath cautioned the authorities during a meeting to review the functioning of the state's medical, health and family welfare departments here at Lok Bhavan.

"Keeping in view of 35 deaths in neighbouring Bihar due to encephalitis, there should be proper planning and we need to be prepared for any such disaster," said the chief minister. Adityanath also wanted all doctors and hospital staffers in the state to treat patients with dignity and asked chief medical officers to visit their respective hospital wards regularly and meet the patents. Chief medical officers should interact with every patient admitted to the hospital and regularly visit the patient wards, he said. "We have to be committed towards every citizen of the state for his or her better treatment without discrimination," he said.