CDMO asked to furnish report on dist hospital

The New Indian Express, May 11, 2007

BHAWANIPATNA: District Collector Pramod Chandra Patnaik has directed the CDMO to take urgent steps to improve the sanitation and electricity facilities in the district headquarters hospital.

He has also asked the CDMO to ensure that all staff remain present during duty hours. The CDMO will have to submit a report in this regard within a week.

The directive came in the wake of the Collector’s surprise visit to the hospital on Wednesday.

At present, the hospital lacks basic amenities. Sanitation standards have deteriorated and garbage is seen strewn in the wards.

Bedsheets and other laundries of the hospital are washed in public tanks.

The Collector was particularly upset to discover that the food items supplied to the patients are not up to the mark and that nine specialists and doctors were absent during duty hours on the day.