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Panel to submit interim report on Friday

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Sanitation drive at SAT Hospital continues

Thiruvananthapuram: The five-member expert committee which is investigating into the outbreak of infection at Sree Avittom Tirunal (SAT) Hospital which led to the death of as many as 38 infants in the past four months, held its sitting on Wednesday also.

The committee, with Director of Medical Education N. Sudhayakumar and Consultant Gynaecologist, SUT Hospital, Rajasekharan Nair as the chairperson, is expected to submit an interim report on Friday.

Meanwhile, the sanitation rounds at SAT Hospital continued. An asepsis protocol was introduced in the hospital on Wednesday. As many as 47 staff members in the hospital took part in the training programme.

The programme focussed on infection prevention and good hygiene practices to be adopted in hospitals, sanitation and biomedical waste disposal.

There were 12 new admissions in the in-born nursery on Wednesday, however, none are critically ill or have been found to have infection, a press release issued by the Control Room at SAT Hospital said. Two infants, one suffering from Hyaline membrane disease and another with hypoglycaemia, who were in the IBN earlier, are critically ill.

Suspension flayed

The Post Graduates' Association at the Medical College criticised the Government for suspending the former SAT Superintendent K. Rajmohan from Medical College service and demanded that he be reinstated without delay.

It demanded that the Government take immediate steps to resolve the deficiencies in Government hospitals rather than blame the doctors for incidents like the one at SAT Hospital.

The association demanded that specialist cadres be implemented in Government hospitals in the periphery so that the Medical Colleges can be maintained as tertiary care institutions. It also suggested that the Residency system be implemented in the Medical Colleges so that patients could be given 24-hour specialists' care.

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