Work culture in most of the hospitals in the state of West Bengal is at stake.

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A few days ago I came across a news in a local Bengali newspaper that an outsider was caught red handed while giving a tetanus injection to a patient at the emergency ward of Suri Sadar Hospital in Birbhum, West Bengal. The outsider when accosted by local people claimed to have been standing in for a Group D employee who he said paid him Rs4500=00 a month. No Group D employee is entitled to do such an act which a doctor or a nurse is supposed to do. Moreover, it is not understood how an outsider who is not at all a staff of the hospital performs duty of a genuine staff of the said hospital. As far as I know the Group D employees are looked after by a Ward Master and above all, there is a superintendent who is supposed to supervise the activities of all the staffs attached to the hospital including the doctors. So, there was definitely negligence in supervising duty of both the superintendent and the Ward Master. So, a proper investigation should be carried out to look into the whole matter. It would be better if the probe includes the functioning of all other hospitals in the state. It seems it has been the work culture in most of the hospitals in the state. This is because this particular incidence came a day after a Group D employee was caught stitching a patient’s wound at Calcutta’s SSKM Hospital which is the most prestigious hospital in the state. So if this state of things can happen in a Calcutta Hospital, then anything can happen anywhere in any hospital in the state. So this work culture should have to be changed at any cost as the question of life and death are involved with it and strict action should be taken against those found guilty. Isn’t it?