Negligence cry in treatment of a patient on Wednesday rocked the state of healthcare system at the state-run Medical College Hospital (MCH) on Wednesday. Violence happened at the MCH following death of a patient Adit Singh, a 45-year-old resident of Baishnab Seth Lane in Jorabagan police station area, on Wednesday.

Police intervened to restore normalcy in the hospital during afternoon. Three persons related to the deceased were arrested later in the day. Aggrieved relatives and friends of the deceased alleged negligence in treatment by junior doctors which resulted in death of the patient.

Around 40 people turned violent soon after Adit’s death and they got involved in a scuffle with a group of junior doctors at the hospital. Aditya was brought to the hospital’s emergency ward around 9 a.m. showing symptoms of severe respiratory trouble.

Members of the deceased’s family alleged the patient was shifted from one department to another-emergency to outdoor patient department (OPD) and then again to the emergency-unnecessarily without any proper medical attention for two hours. It took more than two hours to rush a critical patient from one place to another inside the hospital premises and finally he died owing to delay in treatment.

The junior doctors allegedly beat them when the angry relatives protested against the negligence in treatment. In retaliation the latter allegedly manhandled the junior doctors. Both the patient party and doctors lodged complaint against each other with Bowbazar police station.

“We had to prevent them just to save ourselves from their attack,” some junior doctors said. Officer-in-charge of Bowbazar police station along with the reinforcement from Lalbazar control room intervened and pacified the assembled persons.

The junior doctors of the hospital resorted to cease work from around 2.30 pm before resuming shortly. Dr Sikha Mukherjee, superintendent of hospital, denied charge of medical negligence in treatment. “They (relatives of the deceased) should have lodged official complaint instead of taking law in their own hands.”