Kolkata: Superintendent gets show-cause notice for alleged Negligence at Calcutta Pavlov Hospital
Two rooms with 13 female patients in the hospital were locked and kept in an unhygienic condition with scars and wounds on their bodies. No doctors, nurses or superintendents felt the need to look into the condition of the patients.;
Kolkata: The Bengal State Health Department has issued a show-cause notice to Pavlov hospital's superintendent Ganesh Haldar for alleged gross negligence at the hospital.
Senior Officials from the health department including Deputy Director of Health Services (non communicable-II) Debasis Haldar and Additional Director of Health Services (mental health) Saibal Banerjee visited the hospital twice in April and May.
Two rooms with 13 female patients in the hospital were locked and kept in an unhygienic condition with scars and wounds on their bodies. No doctors, nurses or superintendents felt the need to look into the condition of the patients, the report said.
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"Regular administrative round of the IPD/OPD by Superintendent, Deputy Superintendent (NM), Nursing Superintendent, Deputy Nursing Superintendent, Facility Manager is not being done, nor any round register is being maintained," read the report. There are also complaints about the quality and quantity of food given to the patients.
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