The junior doctors called an indefinite cease work at the Nil Ratan Sircar Medical College and Hospital from Wednesday afternoon after three of them along with a security guard were beaten up during a rampage by the angry family members of a deceased patient alleging medical negligence.
The police arrested five relatives of the deceased Abdul Goni, 45, of Tangra. The accused were booked on charges under the IPC and West Bengal Medicare Service Persons and Medicare Service Institutions (Prevention of Violence and Damage to Property Act), an officer of the Entally police station said. Rattled by the interns’ stir, the hospital authorities held a meeting with them and the police. “We have deputed post-graduate trainees and senior resident doctors to maintain smooth services,” said hospital superintendent L K Ghosh.
Meanwhile, AMRI Hospitals will set up three more multi-speciality hospitals in the eastern region by 2011. Two of them — AMRI Women’s & Children’s Hospital with 275 beds at Mukundapur of E.M. Bypass and 100-bed AMRI Hospital in Burdwan — will come up in state. Another will be a 300-bed AMRI Multi-Speciality Hospital at Bhubaneswar in Orissa. “Construction is underway,” executive director, AMRI hospitals, D.N. Agarwal said.