Deccan Chronicle: Hyderabad: Monday, August 14, 2017.
An RTI query
on the existing security system in the Osmania General Hospital(OGH) has been
filed with the Telangana government, alleging that the hospital is not only
unsafe for junior doctors but also for patients.
The query has
found faults with awarding contracts, and also in paying wages to guards.
Currently, there are only 70 security guards in the hospital. The required
number is 150. The petitioner, Mujtaba Hasan Askari, said, “Earlier, junior doctors
demanded dismantling of the existing security system as they found it
inadequate to protect them. But apart from doctors’ security, there is also the
need to look at the security issues of patients.”
Mr Hasan
alleged that security guards ask for a bribe from patients’ relatives. Stealing
of medicines, mobile phones, wheelchairs and stretchers are also rampant.
However, no action is taken by the administration and no complaint is filed
with the police.
A junior
doctor in his complaint to health minister Dr Laxma Reddy has alleged that
security guards are often found in an inebriated condition in the night.
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