A day after the Bengal Government-run SSKM Hospital decided to hospitalise minister Partha Chatterjee, arrested in connection with an alleged school level recruitment scam the doctors of All-India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar, said he was fully fit save some chronic heart and kidney related ailments.
"We have conducted a thorough screening (of Chatterjee). He has some chronic diseases related heart, kidney and thyroid he but does not need immediate hospitalisation," AIIMS executive director Ashutosh Biswas said at Bhubaneshwar where the Minister was flown in on Monday morning following the orders of Calcutta High Court after the Enforcement Directorate told the Court that he was using his influence to get medical shield in order to evade interrogation.
The ED on Saturday arrested Chatterjee in connection with a money laundering case linked to the school level recruitment scam.
The AIIMS decision is seen as a blot on the “reputation and integrity” of SSKM erstwhile known as PG Hospital one of the oldest and best health facilities in Asia, senior doctors like Kunal Sarkar said.