Kolkata, The West Bengal government is set to introduce colour-coded identity cards for employees at all state-run hospitals as part of a move aimed at preventing unauthorised entry of middlemen inside medical establishments, a senior official said on Monday. Bengal govt to introduce colour-coded ID cards for staff at state-run hospitals Referring to a directive by the health department, the official said separate identity cards with distinct colours have been assigned to different categories of hospital staff, including doctors, nurses, laboratory technicians, administrative personnel, security guards and Group D employees. He said laboratory staff will receive orange cards, assistant professors purple, administrative staff black, nurses brown, security personnel maroon and Group D staff green identity cards. Sanitation workers will be issued yellow cards, while outsourced employees will carry blue ID cards. A senior health department official said the initiative was introduced to strengthen monitoring inside government hospitals and ensure that only authorised personnel are allowed entry into restricted areas. “The objective is to streamline access control inside hospitals and prevent infiltration by unauthorised persons or …