West Bengal health department issues new treatment guidelines, puts doctors on notice over compliance

Kolkata, Nov 9 (UNI) West Bengal has issued new treatment guidelines for doctors in the state, with Health Minister Dr Sharadwat Mukherjee saying the protocols will form the benchmark for assessing medical treatment and complaints against practitioners. Mukherjee said doctors would be expected to follow the state-prescribed guidelines as far as possible and that complaints against practitioners would be examined to determine whether the treatment provided was consistent with the prescribed protocols. He said the guidelines were intended to bring greater uniformity to medical practice and prevent individual preferences from determining how patients were treated. The minister also announced that…