Narayan Swaroop Nigam

Narayan Swaroop Nigam is a senior official in the Health and Family Department of West Bengal, India. Recently, he was in the news for confirming five cases of Nipah virus infections in the state, emphasizing the seriousness of the outbreak and the critical condition of a nurse who was among those infected. His role involves overseeing public health responses and managing the containment of the virus, which is considered a high-priority pathogen by the World Health Organization due to its high mortality rate.