WB Assembly panel finds irregularities in Burdwan hospital

The six-member team led by Chairman Rudranarayan Bhattacharya today visited the hospital in the wake of reports of Rs 1.6 crore misuse of funds for purchase of hospital equipment.

"After inspecting the facilities, we find nothing had been done in the Left Front regime to ease the tremendous strain on the hospital infrastructure due to high number of patients," Bhattacharya said.

Though medicines were stocked in store, the same was not made available to patients and they had to buy them from outside. We also found gross lack of coordination, he said.

Nirmal Majhi, another member of the committee, said costly equipment had been acquired but not installed.

"We hold former state health minister Surjokanto Mishra, former state industries minister Nirupam Sen and former CPI(M) MP Lakshman Seth responsible for the financial misuse in the hospital," he said.

Sashi Panja, Sukumar Dey, Sunil Mondal and Arup Khan were the other members of the visiting team.