5 doctors transferred to Midnapore Medical College Hospital amid saline death controversy

Kolkata: Through a recent notification, the West Bengal Health and Family Welfare Department has ordered the transfer of five government doctors to Midnapore Medical College and Hospital.

The doctors being transferred include Dr Debdatta Ghosh, Dr Debdut Banerjee, Dr Tapan Gangyopadhyay, Dr Sannyasi Charan Barman, and Dr Indranil Sen from the Gynaecology and ENT departments respectively with some being posted as Professor and others as Associate Professor in the cadre of West Bengal Medical Education Service (WBMES).

The order comes at a time when senior officials of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) recently interrogated seven doctors and four nurses who were on duty at the gynaecology department of Midnapore Medical College and Hospital (MMCH) after Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee ordered a CID probe into the alleged expired intravenous fluid case where a woman died and three others fell critically ill after childbirth following the administration of the saline.

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As per the transfer order issued by the state government on January 16,

1. Professor (Dr.) Debdatta Ghosh who was posted as a Professor at the Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics of R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital, has been ordered to work as a Professor at the Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Midnapore Medical College and Hospital with immediate effect.

2. Dr. Debdut Banerjee who was employed as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics of Burdwan Medical College, Purba Bardhaman has been transferred to Midnapore Medical College and Hospital in the same posting with immediate effect.

3. Dr Tapan Gangyopadhyay who served as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Burdwan Medical College, will now act as Assistant Professor in the Department of G&O at Midnapore Medical College and Hospital.

4. Dr. Sannyasi Charan Barman, previously employed with Bankura Sammilani Medical College, Bankura as an Assistant Professor in the department of gynaecology and obstetrics has been transferred to Midnapore Medical College and Hospital as an assistant professor.

5. Professor (Dr.) Indranil Sen who served at the College of Medicine & Sagore Dutta Hospital, Kamarhati, in the department of ENT has been transferred as the MSVP (Medical Superintendent-cum-Vice Principal) at Midnapore Medical College & Hospital.

Medical Dialogues recently reported that a 21-year-old woman passed away after childbirth at MMCH. Consequently, her family raised serious concerns about the saline administered to her during treatment. This led to outrage and protests from the families of other patients as well as four more patients also fell ill due to the administration of the expired saline.

Those four patients were under treatment at the same hospital. Three of them were shifted to the State-run S.S.K.M. Medical College and Hospital in South Kolkata on Sunday night following a sharp deterioration in their medical conditions. The condition of those three women remains “very critical”.

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