Kolkata: Patients at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital resorted to protest on Saturday after a man, who was admitted to the hospital for kidney-related problems, was bitten by a cat.
Swapan Chanda, an elderly patient from Ichhapur in North 24-Parganas, had been undergoing treatment at the hospital for kidney-related problems. Chanda was admitted to the medicine ward of the hospital for past few days for dialysis.
On Friday night, a cat bit him on his right hand. There was resentment among a section of patients at the hospital over the incident. They alleged that the cats were creating menace at the hospital wards. Some family members of the patients staged a protest outside the hospital. They alleged that they went to a senior official of the hospital to lodge a complaint on Saturday morning but he was not there at his office.
They further alleged that various wards were infested with cats but the hospital authorities failed to take any step in this regard. They said there had been instances where patients were attacked by cats and dogs on the hospital campus.
Kolkata Municipal Corporation deputy mayor Atin Ghosh said a few days ago that the authorities would write to the Union ministry of animal husbandry to them to formulate new law giving a detailed guidelines on how to capture the cats. kidney-related problems.