Mamata Banerjee said that the law if needed should be amended to mete out summary punishment to those committing such acts of medical negligence.

Banerjee said, "The law needed to be amended, if required, to mete out summary punishment to those committing such acts of negligence. Why wasn't she (the nurse) more careful in treating the child? The thumb got severed when she tried to cut the bandage. What is this? Sheer nonsense!"
Dubbing such negligence as a 'big crime', Banerjee said, "This can never be tolerated. I feel those committing such acts, should lose their jobs immediately." With the state health department placing the nurse under suspension, Banerjee said, "It is okay that she has been suspended. But after what she has done, she has no right to continue in her job. Negligence is a big crime. If there are no laws as such, the law needs to be amended (to mete out summary punishment)."
After an hour, hospital superintendent Tapan Biswas asked the parents to take the child to the North Bengal Medical College and Hospital in Siliguri of Darjeeling district. But that was not the end of their ordeal. Mamoni Mondal said, "At NBMCH, the doctors told us that it would be meaningless to admit our baby there as it did not have the infrastructure to do a plastic surgery on the child." The baby was brought back to the Balurghat district hospital, and has now been shifted to the SSKM where the doctors performed the plastic surgery on the child.
The state government has announced it will bear all expenses for the child's treatment.
Source-IANS