The security aspect of the MKCG Medial College Hospital is a matter of debate now as a woman managed to take her newborn child from the Sick Newborn Care Unit (SNCU), a high security treatment compartment for babies, on Sunday forenoon.
The woman identified as Gouda Mallick of Sanakutu village was caught mistakenly as a child thief by locals as she ran holding the child in her arm in Gahapati Nagar. locals asked about the child. But as she was speaking Kui, they locals could not understand her and informed the BN Pur police about her suspicious movement
She told police that she left the hospital in secret as her husband Sukra Mallick abused her and slapped her. Then, the police took them to the hospital and the baby was put in the SNCU.
When contacted, MKCG Superintendent Prof Khetrabasi Subuddhi said a probe would be conducted as to how the woman managed to take away her ailing baby from the SNCU.