Top babu takes hospital by surprise,finds it ailing

Only two senior employees were present at the hospital at the time of the inspection. While Medical Superintendent Dr Yadu Lal was on leave,without handing over charge to anyone,the Casualty Medical Officer was not present.

Singh spent close to three hours inspecting every department of the hospital in great detail without anyone realising who he was. The hospital staff assumed that he was from the Administrative Reform Department,which routinely conducts inspections in government offices. “No one asked me and I did not mention it. The objective was to conduct a surprise inspection and after going there I realised a lot needs to be done in that hospital,” Singh told Newsline.

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The rooms in which the CT Scan and ultrasound machines are kept were locked. “We open them when patients come,” the duty doctor at the trauma centre said.

Another startling revelation was that the hospital’s blood bank had neither applied for a licence nor had it stored enough units of blood to cater to patients. “We will be looking at sorting these things out once the MS joins back. They had very less blood stocked but for some reason had overstocked on medicine for the next seven months,” Singh said.

For the last 18 months,the blood bank at the trauma centre has been running without a licence from the State Blood Transfusion Council.