KOLKATA: The National Commission for Women (NCW) is set to visit Panskura Super Specialty Hospital on Saturday in connection with the rape of a female employee at the medical facility. The East Midnapore District Health Department has also formed a five-member committee to investigate the incident.
The five-member committee, including three women officials from the health department, also includes a female lawyer.
The members of the committee on Friday visited the Panskura Super Specialty Hospital premises in this regard. Later, they also spoke to the hospital superintendent.
According to sources, the West Bengal Commission for Women is scheduled to visit the hospital on Saturday.
The development comes after NCW took suo motu cognisance of the incident and decided to send a team to Panskura on Saturday to talk to the victim and visit the hospital where the alleged crime was committed.
NCW member Dr Archana Majumdar told IANS, "We are on our way to Panskura. We will meet the victim and also visit the hospital. We will brief about our findings later in the day."
Earlier this week, a female medical staffer at the hospital accused the facility’s manager of rape.
The prime accused, Zahir Abbas Khan, has been arrested by the police. The alleged incident occurred on September 14 night, after which the survivor, a contractual staffer, filed a complaint at the Panskura Police Station.
Later, many women from the facility alleged that the accused used to call women to his room and sexually abuse them. Allegations first became public on September 15, after which the accused was arrested by the police from Kolaghat, 15 kms away from the hospital.
Khan was the head of the contractor company that the survivor worked for. The victim also alleged that the accused had threatened to kill her if she told anyone.
On Tuesday, massive protests erupted at the hospital after staff alleged previous complaints to the Medical Superintendent were ignored.