KANPUR: Despite the divisional commissioner’s ultimatum at the city’s second big government Ursula Hospital for correcting the irregularities, nothing useful was available to the district magistrate during his visit on December 13.
It was most unexpected, almost shocking for him. From November 27, 2018 inspection by the divisional commissioner to the district magistrate’s ire at the persisting poor position at the hospital was worth understandable.
The DM Vijay Viswas Pant found it difficult to imagine of the worsened situation. He watched silently and sternly how the conditions did not improve. The patients trembling with hope rounded around the district magistrate.
Expressing the problems in details, the patients told whatever they were facing at the hospital. Complaints on the occasion included the alleged realisation of hush money at the operation theatre. He listened to the complaints in regard to the medicines being purchased by the patients from the shops outside the hospital. They even indicated other problems.
In the meantime, one patient with folded hands beseeched the district magistrate nothing was going to change in the hospital. Whenever an officer arrives here, some good arrangements are made for a few hours. Later the same situation once again stays.
It was for the first the DM stayed at the hospital for about two and a half hours and got to know of everything. He could not stop his anger by the running of the rats in the blood bank and the mosquitoes’ menace in the different Wards of the hospital.
The Incharge, Blood Bank could not satisfactorily answer the DM on his query over the rats’ presence. There was also no better situation was prevailing in the orthopaedic department. There was neither detailed directive about the implant nor existed the purchase clause. Side by side, the lady toilet was also found locked. The MRI machine was also not operative at the hospital.
The DM was in a continuous trial of uncertainty by listening about the shocking situation. It was becoming hard to him which side deserves the honour of being displayed and which side should be hidden exactly.
The Chief medical officer Dr Ramji Khanna, Hospital superintendent, Dr Munna Lal, and Hospital manager Dr Faisal Nafis were present on the occasion.
