DM scraps Covid facility status of pvt hospital, warns another

Kanpur: Jolted by the high number of Covid-19 cases and casualties in Kanpur, the district administration has adopted a tough stand against laxities in the corona battle and started taking punitive action.
A day after recommending the dismissal of four doctors of Kanshiram hospital, Kanpur Nagar district magistrate Alok Tiwari scrapped the Covid facility status of Lifetron hospital in Keshavpuram on Thursday and issued a warning to a nursing home in Kalyanpur.
The district magistrate first visited Astha Health centre in Kalyanpur in the morning. After taking stock of arrangements he inquired about specialist doctors. The hospital management told him an anesthetics doctor was called for visit when needed.
Tewari expressed his displeasure and said if the doctor was there for 24 hours then why was he not in the hospital. He warned to scrap the covid facility status granted to the hospital if the doctor is not available.
The DM then went to Lifetron hospital at Keshavpuram to inspect if the suggestions made by him during an earlier inspection had been implemented or not.
However, he found that the hospital administration had overlooked his suggestions for improving facilities.
Annoyed by the careless attitude of management, the DM directed the chief medical officer to scrap the private Covid facility status of the hospital and shift the patients to government or private hospitals as per their wishes.
The DM then went to Kanshiram Hospital where five patients had died in one day and held a meeting with doctors. Tewari had recommended the suspension of four doctors Dr Mahesh Dwivedi, Dr Swarup Mohanti, Dr Ashish Katiyar and Dr Mahendra Kumar to the chief secretary for their negligence in his report.
A three member inquiry committee had reported that the four doctors were lax in discharge of their duties and had a careless attitude.
Katiyar, Dwivedi and Mohanit had claimed that they were not on duty on the night when five patients had died and they had been framed.
The DM said there should be no shortage of oxygen and each patient should be properly examined and given best treatment with complete planning.