The roof of the operation theatre located in the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital campus in Kolkata suddenly collapsed. However, there were no casualties in this incident. It is being told that when this accident happened on Thursday, the operation theatre was closed and no one was present there.

Due to which negligence did the accident happen?

A group of doctors working at RG Kar Medical College has linked the roof collapse incident to financial irregularities during the tenure of former principal Sandip Ghosh. They have claimed that years of negligence in maintaining the hospital's infrastructure led to the accident.

Sandeep Ghosh is accused of getting the infrastructure work done in the hospital through agencies trusted by him instead of the state Public Works Department (PWD). A junior doctor associated with the hospital said that the condition of the operation theatre whose roof collapsed was bad for a long time.

What did the doctor say about the accident?

The junior doctor said that the hospital authorities have been made aware of this, but they have continuously ignored it. If the roof collapse had happened during an operation, the lives of the patients, doctors and nursing staff present there could have been in danger. Another junior doctor said that apart from this operation theatre, the condition of many other medical rooms in the surgery department of the hospital is also very bad. Similar accidents cannot be ruled out in the future until its complete repair and maintenance work is done.