Power outage at Gurugram Civil Hospital: Action ordered against medical officer, Bio-medical engineer
Gurugram: Days after a short circuit-induced power outage interrupted the services at the Gurugram Civil Hospital, the Haryana health minister on Friday issued the suspension of the Bio-Medical Engineer and sent the principal medical officer on leave.
The outage affected the OPD services at the hospital for around over 26 hours on April 17 and 18, and the patients coming to the OPD were turned away at the gate. The computers used for patient registration were also not working properly due to the power outage.
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The emergency department and other wards were functioning because of the generator, which could not be provided to other departments for fear of overload. The power reportedly came back at around 2.30 pm. The doctors were treating patients using the light from their mobile phones.
There are two gen-sets in the hospital, one of 160 kVA and another of 320 kVA. The one of 320kVA suffered a technical fault due to which it failed to start, which caused the interruption in the power supply, reports the TOI. The biomedical engineer, who is also in charge of the Diesel Generator (DG) set, Jaidev was suspended from the hospital.
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