Kolkata, October 10 (IANS). West Bengal Health Department has informed Kolkata Government R.G. An inquiry has been ordered on the basis of complaints regarding supply of “unsuitable” medical kits in the Kar Medical College and Hospital. The hospital has become the center of discussion across the country after the rape and murder of a junior resident female doctor in August this year.
R.G. Junior doctors of Kar have claimed that recently when a consignment of sealed surgical gloves reached the Trauma Care Center of the Government Medical College and Hospital, dried blood stains were seen on many of the gloves in the sealed packets.
Junior doctors have claimed that if these blood-stained surgical gloves were used, the patients could have contracted the infection.
The protesting junior doctors have also alleged that apart from such “unfit” consignment of surgical gloves, fungus was also found in them. ‘West Bengal Health Department’ has ordered a detailed investigation into the matter.
State Health Secretary Narayan Swaroop Nigam claimed that the Central Medical Store, from where the surgical gloves were supplied, has been directed to investigate the matter.
Meanwhile, the junior doctors, who are continuing their protest against the rape and murder, have claimed that their protest is also against the irregularities in various state hospitals which can be dangerous for the patients.
A protesting junior doctor said, “If blood-stained surgical gloves are used while treating patients, there is always a risk of patients getting infected. Unfit medical kits are being used in government medical colleges and hospitals. Such complaints about supply are nothing new.”
Apart from investigating the rape and murder case, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is investigating R.G. It is also conducting a parallel investigation into financial irregularities in tax.
–IANS
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