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After back-to-back incidents of battle wrong State-run hospitals, the West Bengal authorities connected Saturday (October 25, 2025) held a gathering wherever Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee expressed her anguish implicit CCTV monitoring and directed that information unit successful the hospitals are not allowed to participate without due photograph recognition cards.
While the rape and execution of a doctor astatine R G Kar Medical College and Hospital successful August 2024 had triggered monolithic protests, respective incidents, including threats and intersexual battle connected doctors, infirmary staff, and patients, had surfaced successful state-run hospitals successful Kolkata and districts.
On October 20, a pistillate doctor was assaulted by a patient’s family at Uluberia Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay Government Medical College and Hospital. The accused men, one of them identified as a police location guard, were accused of threatening to rape the doc and physically assaulting her wrong the hospital.
Two days later, connected October 22, a minor girl was allegedly sexually assaulted successful the State Government’s SSKM Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, and the accused was arrested and booked nether the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee who virtually participated successful the gathering directed that the information unit successful hospitals are not allowed to participate the premises without due photograph recognition cards. Various backstage organizations are liable for information successful antithetic hospitals and person entree to the infirmary premises.
Sources successful the State authorities said that Ms. Banerjee expressed displeasure implicit CCTV ‘monitoring’ successful the gathering and raised the question of whether the CCTVs that are moving are being decently monitored. Along with the Chief Minister, State’s Chief Secretary Manoj Pant and Kolkata Police Commissioner Manoj Verma and different elder officials attended the meeting.
The Chief Secretary gave six guidelines to the officials which included constabulary verification of information personnel, due attraction of attendance books, mentation of enactment rosters, and sending regular reports to the State’s Health Department.
Despite the State authorities promising the protesting doctors aft the R G Kar calamity to overhaul the information of State-run hospitals, the back-to backmost incidents of battle wrong infirmary premises person enactment the Trinamool Congress authorities successful a hard position. At a state-run infirmary successful Islampur a Trinamool Congress person was caught connected camera threatening a nursing unit of the hospital. Islampur Municipality president Kanhailal Agarwal on with others was seen shouting astatine a radical of nursing staff.
Leader of Opposition successful West Bengal Suvendu Adhikari accused the Mamata Banerjee authorities of failing to support women successful the State. “I would impulse the women successful the authorities to say-‘Amader Para, TMC Tara’ (remove TMC from our locality), BJP volition reconstruct the dignity of women present erstwhile it comes to power,” Mr. Adhikari said during a rally successful Uttar Dinajpur.
