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Ward boy of government hospital suspended for rude behaviour

Special Correspondent

VILLUPURAM: District Collector C.T. Manimekalai has ordered suspension of Ekambaram, a ward boy in the government hospital here, for his rude behaviour towards an elderly woman patient who had come to get treatment for heart ailment.

During the surprise visit made on Saturday, the Collector came across the elderly patient who complained with tearful eyes that the ward boy, regardless of her age and ailment, pushed her down on the pretext of streamlining the queue in the out-patient ward.

After conducting an inquiry in the presence of Medical Superintendent K. Neethipathi, Resident Medical Officer V. Radhakirshnan, Nursing Superintendent Kalavathi and the complainant, the Collector ordered the suspension of Ekambaram.

Later, she went around the hospital to inspect its cleanliness but came out disappointed about its upkeep. The Collector voiced displeasure over the unhygienic condition prevailing in the hospital and how the open spaces had gone to weeds and become dumping ground for all sorts of discarded materials.

Empty medicine bottles were found recklessly dumped beneath the staircase and the bed spreads in the women's ward dirty. There were cracks in the walls and water was dripping through them.

Though there was a laboratory it could not boast of any worthwhile apparatus.

The steam cooking equipment installed in the hospital had become dysfunctional and the reverse osmosis plant meant for supplying clean drinking water too was in disrepair.

The drainage in the hospital was clogged at many places and the mortuary too was ill kept. The Collector emphatically told the medical officers that this was not the way a government hospital should be maintained.

She told them that soon she would convene a meeting to review the situation and discuss the clean-up measures to be taken in the entire hospital campus.

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