Jalpaiguri, June 28: The forest department is considering setting up a hospital for wild animals. The immediate trigger seems to be the two elephants injured by a speeding train on Saturday. Currently, veterinarians from the animal resources development department look after the injured animals in the Dooars forests. Sources in the north Bengal wildlife division of the forest department said since 1974, more than 50 elephants have been mowed down by moving trains in the Dooars. Sixteen bison and six leopards have also been killed on the Dooars tracks during the same period. Officials said three veterinarians of the ARD department are trained to treat wild animals. Surgeon Anup Rakshit, who is currently posted as the livestock officer in Nagrakata, has completed a course on the treatment of wild animals recently. Two other vets, who completed similar courses, Manas Kundu and Ashok Singh, are posted at the Buxa Tiger Reserve and the Jaldapara wildlife sanctuary respectively. They are on lien for four years to the forest department, sources said. The forest staff assist them when they treat animals and conduct post-mortems. With no courses available in the state on wildlife medicine, one has to go to the wildlife department of the Assam Agricultural University in Guwahati or the Indian Veterinary Research Institute in Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh. That there was a lack of facility to treat injured animals in north Bengal has been conceded by the chief conservator of forests, wildlife, north Bengal, Rajkumar Mahatolia.