Govt hospital head under fire

Tandur: Revenue divisional officer Venu Madhava Rao understood to have breathed fire on Bhagya Sekhar Goud, superintendent of Government Hospital here, for a series of irregularities detected in the functioning of the hospital.

The charges against Sekhar Goud include appointing staff members receiving bribes, destroying biometric machine to maintain manual register for a consideration, not treating patients of labour ward without hospital authorities hands being greased, failure of CCTV cameras and CT scan machine and so on.

The RDO sought to know how anesthesia can be given to a patient without his knowledge. He was referring to the case of Padma of Antaram who bribed the hospital sister to the tune of Rs 6000 to undergo piles surgery. She complained to the police as her pain did not subside. She also took the issue to the notice of the district collector leading to appointing an RDO to probe into the irregularities.

An incensed RDO threatened the Hospital superintendent to conduct a praja vani at the hospital here to receive complaints from the public. Former municipal vice-chairman Sajid issued a written complaint against Sekhar Goud that he is making appointments to the hospital collecting bribes from the job-seekers.

When The Hans India sought clarification from Sekhar Goud, he denied receiving bribe in appointing staff to the hospital. He denied the hospital operating upon Padma for piles. What the nurse did was only dressing. He said that he requisitioned a vigilance probe into the incident. If the probe finds nurses were guilty, disciplinary action would be taken against them. Further, he said that technicians have to come from Chennai to repair the hospital CT-Scan equipment. He said that the matter was intimated to higher authorities.