Times
of India: Ahmedabad: Wednesday, 21 January 2015.
On Monday,
when four Independent board members of VS Hospital gatecrashed the mayor's VS
Hospital budget presentation at her bungalow, the members had a point when they
claimed that the hospital administration lacked transparency. The four members Brijesh
Chinai, Rupa Chinai, Jay Sheth and V F Shah belonged to the donor families of
1931.
Documents
received under the Right to Information (RTI) revealed that when the Medical
Council of India (MCI) gave recognition for 150 seats of Smt NHL Medical
College on VS Hospital campus, the hospital was shown as a 1,085-bed hospital
in 2006 and then again in 2011. On Monday, when the mayor presented the budget,
the VS Hospital was show as just a 120-bed hospital!
"How did
MCI give recognition for 150 seats for NHL Medical College if the VS was just a
120-bed hospital. The AMC has then misplaced facts on record," says Pankaj
Bhatt who received the RTI reply in November last year. He even questions the
role of AMC-MET in running the administration of the hospital.
Bhatt
possesses the copy of a resolution signed by the municipal secretary in March
2013 which shows that once the MCI gave recognition to NHL Medical College in
2011, the AMC had ordered in 2013 that except for 120 beds, all the rest 965
beds should be transferred to AMC-MET.
Bhatt's RTI
also throws light on the fact that even the current VS Hospital medical
superintendent Sundeep Malhan has been appointed by AMC-MET trust in 2013. But
Malhan presented the VS Hospital budget on Monday at the mayor's bungalow.
"How is this possible? VS Hopsital is run by VS General and Chinai
Maternity Hospitals Board of management. If Malhan is the medical
superintendent of VS Hospital, why is he appointed by a private trust like
AMC-MET and not VS Hospital board," asks Bhatt.
"When I
asked who conducts audits for AMC-MET, the reply was, "No one". A
separate independent enquiry has to be set up to investigate the goings of VS
General hospital," says Bhatt.
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