Statesman News Service
MALDA, Aug. 26: In a incident, which would remind one of those that surfaced during the faulty blood testing kit scam in the state, government doctors in Malda district hospital have detected a large number of faulty catheters in their supply. They are now at their wits’ end on how to to calm suffering patients and how to decide on the pack of catheters provided to them by hospital authorities. The government doctors’ association submitted a document to the Malda chief medical officer of health on Friday alleging that the present stock of catheters was defective and had caused great trouble to the patients. Patients who faced critical problems after using the faulty catheters in Malda district hospital had to go to Kolkata for removal of the catheters after the local doctors failed to do so. Some other patients were admitted to the local nursing home and had to undergo an operation to get the catheter removed from the penis. The embarrassed doctors demanded immediate replacement of the ‘poor quality’ catheters and an inquiry into the corruption related to procurement of catheters and other medicines for the patients. “I have got into big trouble after having failed to remove the catheter from a patient’s penis,” a doctor said, under condition of anonymity. The Malda CMOH, Mr R R Banik, could not disclose the source of procurement of catheters in Malda district hospital. The doctors wanted to know who had bought the catheters, whether it has been supplied by state health department or locally procured by the district health committee. The deputy CMOH has been asked to look into the matter and a committee has been formed to submit a report on this issue.
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