Hospital PRO booked after gold chain goes missing

Coimbatore: A public relations officer (PRO) of a private hospital at Saravanampatti has been booked for failing to return a patient’s gold chain weighing 10 sovereigns.
The Saravanampatti police said 45-year-old Shanthi, of Ramanathapuram, had handed over the chain to a staff nurse at the Dr Muthu’s Hospital, where she was admitted with Covid-19, while she was shifted to the intensive care unit on May 25, requesting her to keep it safe.
When Shanthi asked the staff nurse to return the chain a few days ago, a police officer said, the latter told her the chain was handed over to the hospital PRO, Prabhakaran, for safety reasons. “Shanthi met Prabhakaran, who did not give her a proper reply. She then approached hospital manager Ravichandran and he held an inquiry with Prabhakaran, who said the chain was missing from his table.”
The manager checked the CCTV footage and found ambulance driver Dheepan taking away the gold chain from the table. “Dheepan told the hospital management that it was Prabhakaran who asked him to get the gold chain from his office table. However, Prabhakaran has denied the charges,” the officer said.