Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Abhishek Banerjee has been booked after a woman from West Bengal complained that she lost her right leg following treatment at a Sebaashray health camp. The case is the third FIR registered in connection with the healthcare outreach programme launched by the Diamond Harbour MP.
Police said the FIR was filed after Maloti Biswas, a resident of Maheshtala in South 24 Parganas district, submitted a complaint a few days ago. An official at Rabindranagar Police Station confirmed that Banerjee and several others have been named in the case and that an investigation is in progress.
According to her complaint, Biswas had gone to a Sebaashray health camp a couple of months ago seeking treatment for knee pain. She said doctors at the camp gave her medicines, which she began taking as advised. However, she told police that her condition became worse instead of improving. She then visited another Sebaashray camp to seek further medical help.
In her complaint, Biswas said doctors at the second camp asked her to pay a large amount of money for treatment. When she did not agree, she was referred to a government hospital. She was later admitted to a government medical college hospital, where doctors found that the damage to her right leg was beyond recovery. According to her complaint, the leg had to be amputated.
The programme faces multiple cases
Sebaashray is a healthcare outreach initiative introduced by Abhishek Banerjee on 2nd January 2025, when the Trinamool Congress (TMC) was in power in West Bengal.
The programme has already been facing questions over its functioning, with two FIRs having been registered earlier over reported irregularities at Sebaashray health camps. The latest complaint has taken the total number of FIRs related to the initiative to three, as police continue to investigate the matter.
