The residents of MLA Colony, Banjara Hills are gearing up for an agitation “vexed with the indifference of civic officials and various State departments over the serious violation of all civic and safety norms by a private hospital in their area”.
Addressing a media conference here on Wednesday, the members of MLA Colony Residents’ Welfare Forum said that they had been patiently submitting representations and meeting the GHMC and government officials for about one year urging them to act against the violations by the hospital and address their grievances.
“Unfortunately no one responded so far to our representations from Chief Secretary, Principal Secretary, MA &UD, GHMC Commissioner, Chief City Planner, Zonal Commissioner, Atomic Energy Regulatory Board, State Pollution Control Board, Medical Council of India, State Disaster and Fire Response, Director, Medical Education, Central Vigilance . Our patience is wearing thin,” said Ridhima, Praveena, Uday Kumar and other members.
The major violation happened when the 200-bed hospital’s exclusive oncology care unit was given permission to function on a 50-foot-wide road that leads towards MLA Colony in violation of the rules listed under GO 766 issued by the MA&UD. There was no space for even single ambulance in the hospital and patients were moved from it to nearby hospitals in wheel chairs disrupting the traffic, members said.
The members said that the nuclear medicine facility of the hospital should have delay tanks to hold the waste excreted by the patients administered with nuclear medicine before releasing it into the main sewerage line to enable the decay of radio iostopes. However, they alleged, the hospital has no space to have these mandatory tanks nor for a mortuary.