Doctor ?misbehaves? with Mamata; suspended

A doctor at state-run Bangur Institute of Neurology was suspended for allegedly misbehaving with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, reports said on Friday.

Hospital director SP Gorai was suspended after he objected to media presence with Banerjee when she paid a surprise visit to the hospital on Thursday.

Objecting to media presence inside the hospital, Gorai had said: ?If everybody comes into the hospital like this, it creates problems.”

To that, Banerjee said: “No one has called the media. Are you facing difficulties because we have come? What is your problem?”

When Banerjee asked him to meet at secretariat Writers? Buildings on Friday, Gorai said he has some surgeries to perform and hence can?t meet her.
Banerjee then instructed Gorai to meet her after the operations and left the hospital.

“Garai was suspended for non-cooperation and indecent behaviour with the chief minister when she visited the institute to see the state of affairs there,” said secretariat sources.

On Thursday, Banerjee, while on her way to Writer’ Buildings, dropped in at the hospital to see the infrastructural works needed to be done there.

Earlier on Tuesday, Banerjee paid a surprise visit to state-run SSKM Hospital on her way to secretariat Writers? Buildings.

Banerjee, who has kept the Health and Family Welfare department to herself, dropped in at the hospital around 10.30am. She headed straight to the emergency ward and talked to doctors and patients.

She stayed there for a few minutes before rushing to the Writers? Buildings.

Declining to disclose her observations about the hospital infrastructure to the media, the Trinamool Congress chief said she has received a lot of complaints about the state?s heath infrastructure and hence decided to keep the concerned portfolio to herself.

Banerjee took oath as the eleventh Chief Minister of West Bengal on May 20 and gained control of Writers’ Buildings, the red-painted edifice of power in the heritage hub of Kolkata.