Correspondent
KARIMGANJ, Dec 27 – People of the Barak Valley expressed concern over the closure notice served to Sundari Mohan Seva Sadan Hospital by the State Health Department on the ground of gross deficiencies in respect of staff, pollution control, trade licence, etc.
Sundari Mohan Seva Sadan Hospital is a philanthropic centre situated at Srikuna. Since its inception in 1965, the hospital has been taking care of the downtrodden and economically distressed people, providing them medical treatment, and in most cases, free of cost. Its application for registration submitted to the Joint Director of Health Services in April 2002 evoked no response till July 2008. But recently the Health Department returned the application to the hospital authorities.
The management of the hospital was asked to apply afresh within 15 days of receipt of the letter failing which show-cause notice would be served as to why the hospital should not be closed down. The application is supposed to be accompanied by an inspection report of the joint Director of Health Services, no-objection certificate from the State Pollution Control Board and GP and the director of Fire Services as well as trade licence from GP and clearance from the ASEB.
Besides, the hospital was asked to introduce ambulance services, proper sanitary conditions, concessional treatment to BPL families, three residential doctors for best up to 30 and one nurse for three best. It should also have specialists in medicine and surgery as well as a dietician. The hospital was also asked not to engage government doctors.
Dr Amitava Bhattacharjee of the hospital giving these details said the management replied on July 21,2008 that it should be allowed to meet requisite norms and sought extension of the deadline. The hospital authorities could procure the required certificates from respective departments. Later, when two of the hospital doctors went to the Fire Brigade office at Silchar to collect the no-objection certificate, a fire brigade official demanded Rs 2000 to issue the same, alleged Dr Bhattacharjee.
Suddenly, on December 4, the Joint Director of Health Services wrote a letter to the management of the hospital to stop functioning of the hospital under Assam Health Establishment Act and charged the authority of functioning its sans any authority.
But this show-cause notice has raised certain relevant questions. While on the same grounds several nursing homes and not taken to task, some nursing homes even do not have incinerators. How a number of pathological laboratories and polyclinics are doing their business in crowded localities of the town without any scientific method to dispose of medical wastes.
Meanwhile, various social organisations are preparing for mass agitation against the government order. source: assam tribune
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