A team of 151 personnel of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) will remain stationed at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital from Thursday following an order from the Supreme Court, officers in the central force said.

The team will be led by an assistant commandant. Twelve of the team members have been requisitioned from the CISF's Durgapur and Burnpur units and the rest are from the Calcutta unit.

Senior CISF officers, led by a deputy inspector-general, went to the hospital on Wednesday morning to inspect the premises and assess the vulnerable points.

Later in the day, senior CISF officers, including the nodal officer appointed for the security of RG Kar, Shikhar Sahai, held a meeting with state health secretary N.S. Nigam, the hospital authorities and Kolkata Police officers.

“We carried out a primary assessment of the hospital to determine the number of personnel to be required there. We checked the number of gates and also mapped out the facility, including the number of entry and exit points and lifts. We will work in tandem with Kolkata Police personnel during the transition till we get familiarised with the campus,” said a CISF officer

Sources said the police shared with the CISF the areas of concern and the type of duty they had been carrying out on the hospital premises.

The apex court on Tuesday ordered the change of guard at the hospital citing the vandalism on the premises on the night between August 14 and 15, when a large mob had breached the hospital compound and ransacked the ground floor.

Reacting to complaints lodged by some of the resident doctors at RG Kar about the attack on their hostel that night and the fact that the majority of the resident doctors had fled the compound, the court ordered the CISF to take charge of security of the hospital to restore the faith of the doctors who left the compound.

Kolkata Police sources said that after the attack they identified 25 locations on the campus where deployment was made.

The CISF will also be deployed around 25-26 locations that the police had felt were vulnerable and needed to be secured.

The hostels on the hospital campus will have security to prevent any attacks.

The police said the emergency ward, the trauma care department and the gynaecology department are vulnerable as those have witnessed several incidents of violence triggered by patients' deaths.

A senior officer at Lalbazar said the police have shared their intelligence and experience with the central agency to help them get familiar with the buildings and the nature of incidents inside the hospital.