The West Bengal Health Department has ordered a probe on the basis of complaints regarding the supply of “unfit” medical kits to the state-run RG Kar Medical College & Hospital in Kolkata where a junior woman doctor was raped and murdered in August this year.
The junior doctors of RG Kar have claimed that recently, a consignment of sealed surgical gloves reached the trauma centre of the state-run medical college and hospital, where dried blood stains were noticed on several gloves within the sealed packets.
The junior doctors have claimed that if these surgical gloves with blood strains had been used, the patients would have been subjected to infection.
The protesting junior doctors have also alleged that fungus has been detected in addition to such an “unfit” consignment of surgical gloves.
The West Bengal Health Department has ordered a detailed probe into the matter.
State Health Secretary Narayan Swarup Nigam has claimed that the Central Medical Store, from where surgical gloves have been supplied, have been directed to investigate the matter.
Meanwhile, the junior doctors continuing with their protest about the rape and murder have claimed that their protests are also against such irregularities in different state-run hospitals which can be hazardous for the patients.
“If surgical gloves with blood stains are used while treating patients, chances of the patients being affected by viruses are always high. Such complaints of about the supply of unfit medical kits at the state-run medical colleges and hospitals are nothing new,” said a protesting junior doctor.
In fact, besides conducting a probe into the rape and murder case, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is also carrying out a parallel probe on the financial irregularities at R.G. Kar.
In the second case, one of the main charges against the former and controversial principal of R.G. Kar Sandip Ghosh is manipulating the tendering system, thus enabling his confident suppliers to supply medical equipment against commissions.
–IANS
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