An alleged incident at Kolkata’s SSKM Medical School and Hospital, one among West Bengal’s premier healthcare establishments, has reignited issues over the standard of kit and affected person care in authorities hospitals within the state.
The West Bengal Junior Docs’ Entrance shared a photograph of a pair of rusty surgical scissors, alleging that it was getting used throughout a cesarean supply final week. The alleged incident has sparked outrage amongst medical professionals in addition to the general public. The junior medical doctors claimed that the rusty scissors broke throughout the process, highlighting the potential dangers to affected person security.
They raised critical questions in regards to the high quality of kit and the general cleanliness of the hospital’s working rooms. Dr Manimoy Bandyopadhyay, Director IPGMER (SSKM Hospital), couldn’t be reached for feedback.
A member of the West Bengal Junior Docs’ Entrance stated, “Now we have stated many instances that the state’s well being system must be overhauled since such an incident shouldn’t be new. However this can’t be allowed to proceed. We’re already protesting over the rape and homicide of a colleague. First, we got here throughout blood-stained gloves at RG Kar Hospital and now these rusted scissors. Is that this an instance of an improved infrastructure?”
The junior medical doctors stated if the rusty scissors had been used on the affected person an infection would unfold in her physique. “It’s claimed that we offer first-rate affected person care however that isn’t true. Now we have seen such issues up to now too however we have gotten vocal about these now,” one other junior physician stated.
The incident involving the “rusty” scissors comes on the heels of blood-stained gloves getting used on the RG Kar Medical School and Hospital.
Alleging that it’s a part of an try and tarnish the state’s healthcare system, some leaders of the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) instructed that the incident might have been staged to discredit the state authorities’s efforts to enhance healthcare services.
“Some junior medical doctors don’t need to work and solely intend to disrupt the state’s healthcare system. They’re circulating footage of stained gloves and rusty scissors. Who is aware of from the place these scissors had been introduced from,” stated TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh.
Nevertheless, BJP chief Samik Bhattacharya stated, “Given the quantity of lower cash (fee) the TMC takes it isn’t shocking that hospitals have rusty scissors. It’s a authorities which has constructed giant entry gates however shouldn’t be adequately geared up to alter even bedsheets.”
