Kolkata: Debasish Som, a demonstrator at the Forensic Medicine Department of the state-run R.G Kar Medical College & Hospital in Kolkata and an important witness in the hospital’s financial irregularities case was admitted to a private hospital in Kolkata in severe condition on Sunday.
According to sources, he was admitted to the hospital after experiencing substantial fluctuations in his blood sugar levels.
Som, a diabetic patient, is currently receiving treatment in the private hospital’s Intensive Critical Care Unit.
Previously, he was summoned and questioned by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officers who are investigating both the R.G. Kar financial case and the rape and murder of a junior doctor at the same hospital.
Before that, CBI sleuths had raided Som’s residence.
The central probe agency started investigating the hospital’s financial irregularities following an order by a single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court, acting upon a petition filed by the former Deputy Superintendent of the same hospital, Akthar Ali.
The CBI is now probing the financial irregularities at R.G. Kar during the tenure of former principal Sandip Ghosh.
Som is an important eyewitness in the case as there were complaints that the organs of unidentified bodies, which were sent to the hospital for post-mortem purposes, were often sold in the market at a lucrative price when Ghosh was at the helm of affairs.
The two teams of CBI, one probing the financial irregularities case and the other probing the rape and murder, were trying to find out links between the two cases.
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Already the representatives of the protesting medical fraternity, including senior and junior doctors as well as medical students, have claimed that there are hidden facts behind the rape and murder of the junior doctor.
The protesters have claimed that “the victim had to pay the price of becoming aware of some gory secrets about the hospital.”
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–IANS
