The situation escalated into a full-blown confrontation, with students staging protests and demanding answers from the administration.
Several serious patients and their families are facing significant challenges in receiving timely treatment at North Bengal Medical College and Hospital (NBMC&H) due to an acute shortage of trolleys and wheelchairs.
A 16-year-old girl from Prasanna Nagar, Jalpaiguri, got relief at North Bengal Medical College and Hospital (NBMCH) after a critical case involving the ingestion of a hijab pin.
The state-level security audit committee (SLSAC), led by former director general of police Surajit Purkayastha, convened a meeting today with officials from North Bengal Medical College and Hospital (NBMC&H) and Raiganj Medical College and Hospital.
In a dramatic incident today, a group of frustrated patients and their relatives stormed the office of the medical superintendent and vice principal (MSVP) at North Bengal Medical College and Hospital (NBMC&H).
Earlier, three children suffering from fever and respiratory infection had died there in the past four days-a three-month-old baby girl, who had been referred from the Kharibari hospital died on 22 September, while a four-month-old girl of Pradhannagar died on 23 September.
"The teenager earlier was admitted to other hospitals due to his chronic illness. His intestines have come out of his abdomen and we were planning to restore them through surgery, but as he has also been suffering from malnutrition, the doctors were taking time for the surgery,"
Doctors said it would be a major boost for the treatment of cancer patients of north Bengal. They said more government-run facilities are needed for cancer treatment. Another cancer hospital in the state will come up at the SSKM in association with the Tata Memorial Hospital in Mumbai, it is learnt.
Apart from Covid-19 vaccination, other vaccines for diseases like Japanese Encephalitis, yellow fever, tetanus-diphtheria are also administered at the NBMCH. Some recipients of Covid19 vaccines have reported AEFI and at least two persons died in north Bengal after getting the shots in March.
The VRDL had also become the first laboratory in the state to cross the 1-lakh mark in August last year.
