The husband of the young woman whose death sparked violence at College of Medicine and Sagore Dutta Hospital on September 27 has lodged an FIR alleging that the doctors did not attend to his wife despite repeated pleas.

By the time doctors came, Ranjana Shaw was dead, her husband said.

“As my wife’s condition started deteriorating, we went to call the doctors but they were reluctant to come. A nurse turned up and put her on oxygen. Her shortness of breath went up,” Navin Kumar Shaw said in the complaint which is now being treated as an FIR.

“We went and pleaded with the doctors requesting them to start treating my wife. Do not let my three-and-a-half-year-old daughter lose her mother, we told them. The doctors refused to come. They were huddled inside a room and chatting. They told us they would attend when they had time. We will not do as you wish. We will intervene at the right time. Don’t give sermons to us, they said,” the complaint, handwritten in Bengali, says.

“My wife’s condition started deteriorating further. We went to the doctors again and requested them at the top of our voices with folded hands to please attend to my wife. Hearing our cries, they turned up to attend to my wife and said our patient had passed away at 5.30 in the afternoon,” the complaint says.

Ranjana’s death sparked furious reactions from her relatives. They allegedly assaulted a section of junior doctors and nursing staff inside the female medicine ward of the state healthcare facility off BT Road on the city’s northern fringe.

Immediately after the incident, the hospital’s junior doctors resorted to a cease-work demanding adequate security cover.

The cease-work continued through Monday.

The hospital authorities lodged a complaint alleging assault by a section of Ranjana’s relatives.

Four persons have been arrested in this connection.

Navin filed the FIR on Sunday and said the family was busy with her last rites, so the delay in lodging the FIR.

“It was because of the negligence of duty on the part of the doctors... that resulted in the death of my wife and my three-and-a-half-year-old daughter lost her mother,” the complaint says.

“Please take necessary steps and punish the accused accordingly,” it adds.

The FIR was drawn up under Section 106 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).

The section deals with death due to negligence.

“I took my wife to the hospital around 3.14am on September 27 (Friday) and she was released from there within two hours after some cursory treatment,” Navin told Metro.

“Back home she started complaining of acute illness again and we had to bring her back to the hospital around 3pm. After almost two-and-half hours, she passed away.”

The agitating junior doctors of the hospital have said the patient was brought to the hospital in a critical state and she passed away despite the best efforts of those on duty. The junior doctors said the attack by a section of the patient’s relatives exposed the state government’s failure to provide security to doctors at their workplace.

In his complaint, Navin said that after re-admitting his wife at 2.57pm on September 27 doctors pushed three injections and administered some medicines following which she fell asleep.

She woke up after some time and complained of irritation all over the body and soon after she complained of shortness of breath.

The relatives then started calling the doctors to come and attend to her complications and they were allegedly reluctant to attend to herat first.

The death at the College of Medicine and Sagore Dutta Hospital came up during the hearing on RG Kar in the Supreme Court on Monday.

Karuna Nundy, representing senior doctors in the case, referred to the assault and said when the mob entered the police and the “non-state security personnel... stood back”.

The lawyer representing the state refuted theallegation.

“A patient died because he wasn’t provided bed. She was critical. No doctors attended,” the lawyer said.

The police said they would initiate a preliminary inquiry based on the FIR. If required, they would question some of those on duty, the police added.

Those arrested for the alleged assault are now in police custody.