Kolkata: Superintendent gets show-cause notice for alleged Negligence at Calcutta Pavlov Hospital

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.

The report also added that 13 female patients' rooms were dark, shabby, and dirty with broken iron cots, strewn across the floor thereby exposing the inmates to the risk of being injured by the rusted, sharp and broken ends of the iron cots. On enquiry, the on-Calcutta duty nursing staff said that they were housed there on the advice of the psychiatrist on the ground of their violent behaviour but they failed to produce any written advice to that effect, reports The Indian Express.

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The superintendent could not provide any explanation for the inhumane treatment of the patients, cited the report. It has been also alleged that the hospital is running without adequate employees. As a result, the interns are running the hospital ward.

Now questions are being raised by the health department regarding misusing of funds that the hospital recieves to provide the patients with proper food and shelter. An investigation is underway to determine how the hospital might have used the money.