College student’s kidney missing

College student’s kidney missing

Statesman News Service
North Bengal & Sikkim

BALURGHAT. March 3: Tension prevails in Gangarampur of south Dinajpur district over a missing kidney of a Gangarampur college student. SFI activists today ransacked a private nursing home alleging that the nursing home authorities were involved in the case. The victim was recently admitted to the private nursing home for treatment.
Nirmal Ghosh of Jaypur, under Gangarampur police station, was admitted to the Sandhya Nursing Home of Gangarampur on 5 February following appendix pain. He was released four days later after a surgery but the pain relapsed following which, he went back to the nursing home for a check up.
The nursing home doctors advised him an ultra sonography and Nirmal went to Malda for the test. To his horror, the doctor, who conducted the sonography test in Malda told him that one of his kidney was missing. A shattered Nirmal and his relatives returned home and apprised their neighbours of the matter. The news also reached his college friends and they reacted violently by ransacking the nursing home.
The nursing home management has, however, rejected the allegation. The police in Gangarampur brought the nursing home's owner Dr AK Paul, to the police local station to inquire about the matter where he categorically denied the nursing home's involvement in the incident. The doctor, who had operated Nirmal for the appendix problem was, however, not available.
SFI leader Mr Jagannath Ghosh demanded exemplary punishment of the guilty alleging that the nursing home authorities and the doctor who had conducted the surgery on the victim were involved in the incident. The district health authorities so far have not commented on the matter. “We would investigate the matter,” Mr KK Mullick, SP, south Dinajpur said.

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