FGG seeks Governor’s help for probe into Gandhi Hospital ‘shortcomings’

‘Hospital superintendent had written to the government seeking additional facilities’

Forum for Good Governance (FGG) has urged Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan to direct Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar to order a vigilance probe into the “inadequate medical and health infrastructure” at Gandhi Hospital and why ‘shortcomings’ highlighted by the superintendent have been ‘side-stepped’ by the department concerned. In a communication to the Governor, a copy of which was released to the media recently, forum secretary M. Padmanabha Reddy informed that the hospital superintendent had written to the government seeking more security personnel and sanitary staff, better the quality of lab reagents on a regular basis, recruitment of lab technicians and medical staff regularly and so on. This was in response to adverse reports in a section of the media highlighting that patients were being forced to seek services of private labs, which have mushroomed outside the hospital, for even basic tests where the prices are very high with the hospital not conducting any such tests. Some of the labs did not have proper registrations too and could be in collusion with the hospital staff.