KOLKATA: Under pressure from state health department, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation has decided to exempt patients from submitting photocopies of their Aadhar cards at three dengue detection centres in north Kolkata. Instead any address proof documents such as ration cards, utility bills, voter cards, driving licenses or even ID proof of a government agency with proper address of the beneficiary could be sufficient documents for a patient who wants a blood test at the KMC dengue detection centres in the north.A TOI report on Monday highlighted the ‘strange’ system of asking for Aadhar cards from suspected dengue patients who have been visiting the KMC dengue detection centres at Hatibagan, Cossipore and Girish Park from areas like Baranagar, Baguiati, Dum Dum and Lake Town which are outside the KMC jurisdiction. The idea was to keep residential proof of the patients from the neighbouring municipalities and keep records of the beneficiaries and send detailed record to Swastha Bhawan The KMC health department officials in charge of three borough health offices insisted that Aadhar cards be produced each time a patient from bordering municipalities visits the KMC dengue clinic after they found that a section of patients had provided fake address.However, the system created ripples in the civic corridors after state health top brass asked the civic health department to file a report on the Aadhar card status for the dengue patients. A team of health officials led by municipal commissioner Khalil Ahmed on Monday rushed to Nabanna and met the state health officials to clear the air about the requirement of Aadhar cards for the purpose of getting the benefit of a blood test at the KMC dengue clinics. It is learnt that chief minister Mamata Banerjee herself wanted to know the truth about the Aadhar card requirement by the KMC dengue detection centres.After the meeting with the state health department officials at Nabanna, the KMC officials held a meeting among themselves and decided to give multiple options to the patients wanting to get their blood tested at three dengue clinics in north Kolkata which have been frequented by people of bordering municipalities. “We have decided to exempt the patients from carrying Aadhar cards to our dengue detection centres in parts of north Kolkata. Instead we will be asked to carry any simple documents that will be kept as record of their residential addresses,” a KMC health department official said.