Medical, security officers suspended, 4 administrators of MP hospital booked
3 min readExpress News Service
BHOPAL: Jabalpur district Chief Medical and Health Officer, Dr Ratnesh Kuraria, and Fire Safety Officer Kushagra Thakur have been on Tuesday suspended over Monday’s hospital blaze, on the order of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. All 4 administrators of New Life Multi Specialty Hospital have been booked for culpable murder not amounting to homicide, a day after eight individuals died in an enormous hearth on the hospital.
Smoke bellows after a significant hearth
broke out at Life Multispeciality
Hospital in Jabalpur on Monday. (Photo | PTI)
“The four directors Dr Nishant Gupta, Dr Suresh Patel, Dr Sanjay Patel and Dr Santosh Soni have been booked under IPC sections which pertain to culpable homicide not amounting to murder and attempted culpable homicide not amounting to murder. The hospital manager, who is also accused in the case lodged at Vijay Nagar police station, has been arrested,” MP house minister Narottam Mishra stated.
Major lapses have been discovered on the hospital, Mishra stated. “The fire NOC issued by the local municipal corporation had expired. All those involved in the lapses, including officials, will be probed by a high-level committee headed by the Jabalpur divisional commissioner,” he added.
The chief medical and well being officer cancelled the registration and licence of the hospital with quick impact. According to sources, the hospital had managed to get licence/registration from the well being division with out submitting a constructing completion certificates. The licence was issued ignoring absence of emergency entry and exit factors, sources stated.
Also, no hearth security audit was carried out on the hospital, regardless of the CM asserting necessary security audit after the November 2021 inferno on the paediatric ICU of the state authorities’s Kamla Nehru Hospital in Bhopal.
Meanwhile, Chouhan held a gathering of senior officers by means of video conferencing on Tuesday relating to the hospital inferno. He stated hospitals needs to be checked within the whole state, together with Jabalpur. If the fireplace security system is discovered missing, the licences of the hospitals needs to be cancelled.
BHOPAL: Jabalpur district Chief Medical and Health Officer, Dr Ratnesh Kuraria, and Fire Safety Officer Kushagra Thakur have been on Tuesday suspended over Monday’s hospital blaze, on the order of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. All 4 administrators of New Life Multi Specialty Hospital have been booked for culpable murder not amounting to homicide, a day after eight individuals died in an enormous hearth on the hospital.
Smoke bellows after a significant hearth
broke out at Life Multispeciality
Hospital in Jabalpur on Monday. (Photo | PTI)“The four directors Dr Nishant Gupta, Dr Suresh Patel, Dr Sanjay Patel and Dr Santosh Soni have been booked under IPC sections which pertain to culpable homicide not amounting to murder and attempted culpable homicide not amounting to murder. The hospital manager, who is also accused in the case lodged at Vijay Nagar police station, has been arrested,” MP house minister Narottam Mishra stated.
Major lapses have been discovered on the hospital, Mishra stated. “The fire NOC issued by the local municipal corporation had expired. All those involved in the lapses, including officials, will be probed by a high-level committee headed by the Jabalpur divisional commissioner,” he added.
The chief medical and well being officer cancelled the registration and licence of the hospital with quick impact. According to sources, the hospital had managed to get licence/registration from the well being division with out submitting a constructing completion certificates. The licence was issued ignoring absence of emergency entry and exit factors, sources stated.
Also, no hearth security audit was carried out on the hospital, regardless of the CM asserting necessary security audit after the November 2021 inferno on the paediatric ICU of the state authorities’s Kamla Nehru Hospital in Bhopal.
Meanwhile, Chouhan held a gathering of senior officers by means of video conferencing on Tuesday relating to the hospital inferno. He stated hospitals needs to be checked within the whole state, together with Jabalpur. If the fireplace security system is discovered missing, the licences of the hospitals needs to be cancelled.
