Nagpur: Officials of the Vidarbha Hospitals’ Association (VHA) on Monday called on commissioner of police Amitesh Kumar and raised the issue of security of private hospitals in the wake of the recent attack at Hope Hospital. An angry lot comprising relatives of a Covid patient had set the hospital’s reception area on fire.
VHA officials told TOI that the CP has assured them of strict action against trouble makers. “The CP announced a 24x7 dedicated cell under the DCP (special branch) to aid private Covid hospitals. Local police stations will conduct a security audit of hospitals in their jurisdiction. Cops will conduct regular patrolling of hospitals and also display police notice boards,” said VHA convener Dr Anup Marar.
The CP assured all private Covid hospitals that strict legal provisions, including Maharashtra medicare service, persons and medicare institutions (Prevention of violence and damage or loss of property) Act 2010 and the Epidemic Act will be slapped against the miscreants.
Additional municipal commissioner Jalaj Sharma, who also attended the meeting, assured that stationed auditors of NMC will represent the administration and play a proactive role so that trouble makers will not dare to act against government officials. Sharma also assured timely pickup of Covid bodies by NMC.
Apart from Dr Marar, VHA was represented by Dr Ashok Arbat (president), Dr Alok Umre (secretary), Dr Uday Mahorkar (ex-president), Dr Shantanu Sengupta, Dr Prakash Khetan, Dr Pramod Gandhi, Dr Murli, Dr Deepak Deshmukh, Dr Rajan Barokar, Dr Deepak Jeswani, Dr Sanjay Chandankhede, Dr Tushar Gawande, Dr Santosh, Dr Barde, Dr Ninad Godghate and others.