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Lokayukta officers visit maternity hospital

DAVANGERE: Lokayukta personnel on Tuesday paid a surprise visit to the government maternity hospital in the old Davangere area following complaints of rampant corruption.

Senior officers from the Lokayukta, Bangalore, along with their counterparts here, listened to the grievances of patients and their attendants.

Complaints of money being demanded for delivery, showing the newborn to the mother and her relatives, and providing medicines and various other services were levelled by the patients and their attendants against the hospital staff.

Many people complained that doctors asked attendants to buy medicines from outside, even as a drug centre is functioning on the hospital premises. Many patients alleged that the doctors had a nexus with some medical shops situated around the hospital.

The hospital authorities, who were taken aback by the visit of the Lokayukta officers, failed to give convincing answers.

They said that the patients and their attendants were asked to buy medicines from outside only when there was no stock of such medicines at the hospital. However, they did not answer why adequate quantity of commonly prescribed medicines was not stored at the hospital. The Lokayukta officials warned the hospital authorities and the staff that stern action would be taken against those demanding money for any work or service rendered to the public.

Lokayukta officers Kambar, Basavarajappa and Sudheer Hegde and dean of the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences Chandrashekar were among those who visited the hospital. A.S. Prashantha Kumari, head of the hospital, showed the records related to the purchase of medicines to the Lokayukta officials.

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