Chaos on campus had no impact on emergency services: NRS principal

Kolkata: The principal of NRS Medical College and Hospital has written to the Director of Medical Education (DME) at Swasthya Bhavan on Monday stating that emergency health services were never stopped at the hospital following the clash that broke out between junior doctors and relatives of a patient who died there on Sunday morning.

A college council meeting was held at NRS on Monday discussing Sunday's incident.

Senior officials of NRS Medical College spoke to the interns and junior doctors to get information about the violence that took place at the emergency ward after the patient dies.

The interns and junior doctors have urged the hospital authorities to put in place adequate security arrangements inside the campus. In previous occasions, junior doctors had been heckled by the family members of patients but the authorities have failed to check such incidents.

In his letter to the senior health official, the principal said though some doctors were taking part in the agitation, it did not have any impact on the emergency health services of the hospital. However, there was some delay in the admission of patients due to the chaos that broke out on the hospital campus, the principal clarified.

The hospital authorities on Sunday lodged an FIR with the local police station on the basis of which police have arrested five persons for triggering violence.

The trouble broke out on the hospital campus after a patient, Pervej Hossain, a resident Topsia died at the hospital.

He was taken to NRS after he complained of severe chest pain. The patient was admitted to the hospital but there was a slight delay in conducting a CT scan on the patient. The family members of the victim brought charges of medical negligence against the hospital and clashed with some junior doctors.