Kolkata, Aug 13 (IANS) A female nursing staff member of state-run N.R.S. Medical College and Hospital in central Kolkata was found dead under mysterious circumstances on the hospital premises on Thursday.
Her body was found in the hospital washroom early in the morning. The deceased nursing staff was on night duty at the high dependency unit (HDU) of the gynaecology department of the said hospital on Wednesday.
As per the latest information available, after she was reported missing from duty for some time, her colleagues started looking for her, and finally discovered her body in a toilet early this morning.
The police were informed by the hospital authorities immediately. The body of the deceased nurse has been sent for post-mortem. The actual reason behind the death will be known only after the detailed autopsy report is available, said a hospital insider.
Two years ago, in August 2024, the body of a female junior doctor was recovered from the seminar room of the emergency department of state-run R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital in North Kolkata. Later, it was found that she was brutally raped and murdered the night before.
There were massive protests throughout the state over the incident, which gradually spread beyond the state and the national boundaries. The entire state witnessed uproar over the incident. This time, a nurse died mysteriously in a government hospital in Kolkata.
After that mishap, the previous Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress regime promised several measures to increase surveillance and security in the state-run medical establishments. However, even after that, questions were often raised over how much of this had been implemented in the last two years.
In March this year, a young man died after being trapped in the elevator of R.G. Kar, with the malfunctioning elevator not being attended to by the hospital staff for a long time. In the same month, a senior-citizen patient admitted at the same hospital died while walking to the second-floor toilet after not getting a stretcher.
–IANS
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