Chief minister Mamata Banerjee met Paribaha Mukhopadhyay at the Institute of Neurosciences Kolkata on Monday evening and assured the Domjur boy that the government was with him, sources said.

Sources said Mamata asked doctors whether a channel in his hand — to administer antibiotics — was hurting the junior doctor who was recovering from a surgery of the right frontal lobe of his skull.

Mamata turned up at the hospital around 7.40pm, nearly two hours after meeting a team of agitating junior doctors at Nabanna where she had said she would call on the injured doctor from NRS Medical College.

Health secretary Rajiva Sinha and Calcutta’s police commissioner Anuj Sharma accompanied Mamata to the institute, where Paribaha has been undergoing treatment since May 13.

“Are you sure this channel on his hand is not hurting him? I know it can be really painful,” Mamata reportedly asked a team of doctors who had accompanied her to the cabin where Paribaha has been admitted.

“Please see to it. I know how painful it can be. They had done similar channels on my hand and I know it hurts,” she said.

On June 13, Paribaha was admitted to the Mullickbazar hospital around 3.20am. A CT scan had revealed he had suffered a depression fracture in the right frontal lobe of the skull. The surgery to fix the dent and clean the surrounding wound started around 3.30pm and went on for about two hours.

Two days after this, Mamata cancelled her visit to Paribaha after agitating junior doctors refused to blink and go back to their duties. On Monday, junior doctors agreed to return to work and rejoiced at the chief minister’s decision to call on Paribaha.

“What will happen to the mark on his forehead?” Mamata is learnt to have asked doctors while standing besides Paribaha’s bedside. “If the mark doesn’t disappear, you can think of doing a plastic surgery,” Mamata is learnt to have told the team of doctors.

She even asked the team of doctors not to worry about the expenses. The state would bear all the cost, she said.

Doctors informed Mamata that the institute was happy to bear the cost of all treatment. The chief minister thanked the team for their “good gesture”, but insisted that Paribaha was the state’s responsibility.

“We assured the chief minister that there was no need for any plastic surgery. Paribaha was young and the scar would disappear after some time,” said R.P. Sengupta, founder chairman of the institute.

“The conversation between the chief minister, the junior doctor and all of us was very warm and cordial,” he said.

According to Sengupta, Paribaha was doing fine and there were no reasons to believe that he would not be able to pursue his dream of being a surgeon.

Some of the agitating junior doctors had said Paribaha was suffering from temporary memory loss and given his state, he may not be able to pursue his dream of being a surgeon.

“There is no complication at all. I have checked Paribaha. He can swim, cycle or do anything that he wants to in course of time,” Sengupta said. “He is now suffering from nervous anxiety.”

Before leaving, Mamata reportedly enquired about Paribaha’s parents, to which he said they were based out of Domjur in Howrah and were not keeping well.

“He even told the chief minister that his sister and brother-in-law had left minutes before she arrived or else they would have met,” a source in the hospital said.