Cleaning Staff cleans Wound in Kolkata Super Specialty SSKM Hospital. When complained about this, hospital Authorities said that they will probe the incident.
Seth Sukhlal Karnani Memorial Hospital, colloquially known as P G Hospital (Presidency General Hospital) or SSKM Hospital is a tertiary referral government hospital for the state of West Bengal, India and is a national research institute.
The group-D staff of the hospital allegedly stitched the wounds of Siddheswar Sardar, who had suffered a head injury and was brought to the hospital for treatment.
“The person did not put me under any anaesthesia. I suffered severe pain during the stitching,” Sardar alleged.
Commenting on the allegation, SSKM director Pradip Mitra said it should not have happened in normal situation.
“Some group-D staff members are trained for stitching wounds, mainly for emergency situations. But in normal situation, a group D staff should not have done this,” Mitra said.
He refused to comment further, saying: “A thorough probe is required.”