Statesman News Service
MALDA, Dec. 12: The health department has cancelled quotations from private establishments stating the rate of engaging ex-servicemen as security staff at the Malda district hospital. According to the health department authorities, the rates are exorbitant.The ground of cancellation has caused a flutter as according to the Malda district chief medical officer, health Dr Radha Raman Banik, the rate was lower than the one accepted for the Balurghat hospital in South Dinajpur. “I do not know how it was found exorbitant. The rate quoted by the contractors for Malda hospital is lower than that of Balurghat hospital,” the CMOH, said. The need for engaging ex-servicemen as security at the hospital arose following a series of doctor bashing incidents in recent times. According to the hospital authorities, the state health minister Dr Surya Kanta Mishra has also been emphasising on engaging ex-army men in the Malda district hospital.But the local contractors have been supplying contractual staff for cleaning, security and other jobs for the hospital for the past five years and now such staff, backed by the CPI-M and CITU stand united and are opposing the decision to appoint ex-servicemen as security. The CMOH said: “The health authorities did not accept the rate quoted for the purpose in 2005 by the former CMOH, Dr Gopal Sarkar. Another tender would be floated after March for engaging ex-Army men in Malda district hospital.” The situation in Malda district hospital is tense. The doctors expressed unhappiness over the insecurity they face at the hospital, more so following the assault of a pediatrician on 3 December. The Malda district magistrate Mr CR Das and the additional superintendent of police, Mr Sujit Sarkar, visited the hospital yesterday and posted police at the hospital gates for security, the CMOH, said.
MALDA, Dec. 12: The health department has cancelled quotations from private establishments stating the rate of engaging ex-servicemen as security staff at the Malda district hospital. According to the health department authorities, the rates are exorbitant.The ground of cancellation has caused a flutter as according to the Malda district chief medical officer, health Dr Radha Raman Banik, the rate was lower than the one accepted for the Balurghat hospital in South Dinajpur. “I do not know how it was found exorbitant. The rate quoted by the contractors for Malda hospital is lower than that of Balurghat hospital,” the CMOH, said. The need for engaging ex-servicemen as security at the hospital arose following a series of doctor bashing incidents in recent times. According to the hospital authorities, the state health minister Dr Surya Kanta Mishra has also been emphasising on engaging ex-army men in the Malda district hospital.But the local contractors have been supplying contractual staff for cleaning, security and other jobs for the hospital for the past five years and now such staff, backed by the CPI-M and CITU stand united and are opposing the decision to appoint ex-servicemen as security. The CMOH said: “The health authorities did not accept the rate quoted for the purpose in 2005 by the former CMOH, Dr Gopal Sarkar. Another tender would be floated after March for engaging ex-Army men in Malda district hospital.” The situation in Malda district hospital is tense. The doctors expressed unhappiness over the insecurity they face at the hospital, more so following the assault of a pediatrician on 3 December. The Malda district magistrate Mr CR Das and the additional superintendent of police, Mr Sujit Sarkar, visited the hospital yesterday and posted police at the hospital gates for security, the CMOH, said.
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