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Kolkata: Two hospitals were ransacked in the suburbs of Kolkata on Friday afternoon.
The incidents took place at Belur in Howrah and Baj Baj in South 24-Parganas.
ESI Hospital was vandalized after motorcyclist Somnath Sahu died after being hit by an oil tanker on Buzz Buzz Trunk Road.
The family members of the victim claimed that there was negligence on the part of the hospital staff, but the hospital administration denied it.
He said the patient was not treated properly though he was seriously injured. After the incident, Mahestala police arrested two people. The police had to lathi-charge to control the crowd.
Even a local councilor was assaulted when he tried to control the situation.
In Belur, a state hospital was vandalized by relatives of a patient as they claimed that doctors were not treating the patient properly.
Hospital officials claimed that most of the relatives were intoxicated and they damaged furniture and other equipment and also damaged an ambulance in an emergency.
The relatives of the patient also abused the hospital staff.
Police is scanning the CCTV footage to identify the vandals.
The doctors said that although the West Bengal Medicare Service Persons and Medicare Service Institutions (Prevention of Violence and Damage to Property) Act 2009 did not charge anyone under this section even after routine attacks on hospital staff and causing damage to hospitals. went.
Earlier this week, another hospital in the city was ransacked following the death of a middle-aged patient.