NRS staff wishes to relocate campus cats, awaits permission

Kolkata: Ratna Mondal, a fourth class staffer of NRS Medical College and Hospital and an animal lover, has urged the hospital authorities for their permission to relocate as many as 150 cats found at various departments in the hospital. Mondal will soon write to the hospital superintendent in this regard. The incident comes barely two weeks after the merciless killing of 16 puppies by two nursing students of NRS.

According to hospital sources, the cats inside the hospital premises often create a nuisance. There have been instances of patients and their relatives getting bitten by the cats or their food getting stolen by them.

To find out a permanent solution to the problem, Mondal has appealed to the hospital authorities. It was learnt that in the Gynaecological ward alone there are about 15-20 cats and on an average, there are eight to 10 cats in each ward. When the patients are given food these cats come close and scare them. The cats also attack the patients while being driven away by the staffers. Around few months ago, a cat scratched an expectant mother for which she had to be vaccinated. Earlier, an NGO used to take away the cats from the hospital but it does not happen anymore. It is also stated that ligation is not performed on the cats found in the hospital.

Mondal has expressed her wish to shift the cats to some other place if the authorities allow her. It would not only help the patients to get rid of this cat menace but also provide the feline species a safer life,

Mondal maintained.