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NHRC slaps notice on government.
The National Human Rights Commission has taken suo moto cognisance of a media report that said 21 patients had allegedly died due to power failure in a single day at the government-run Gandhi Hospital in Hyderabad on July 22.
New Delhi: The National Human Rights Commission has taken suo moto cognisance of a media report that said 21 patients had allegedly died due to power failure in a single day at the government-run Gandhi Hospital in Hyderabad on July 22.
The Commission has observed that the contents of the news report are painful and raise serious issues of violation of Right to Life of the patients.
Accordingly, a notice has been issued to the Principal Secretary, Department of Medical Health & the Family Welfare, Government of Telangana calling for a report in the matter within six weeks.
The Commission has also sought details of the measures taken to grant relief to the affected families.
The Commission on the basis of the media report also noted that in all such sensitive places and particularly hospitals, there should be regular/periodical drill to insure that people managed to work on alternatives methods/systems in case of power failure.
Before setting out to switch off even generators to rectify a technical snag, the doctors, paramedical staff and attendants should have been alerted about the blackout.
According to the media report, the electricity supply first tripped around 3.00 pm on the day and thereafter, it continued to do so at regular intervals.
Although, there were four generators as standby, they developed snags and could not be used when power lines were later cut off to find the cause of the tripping.
The deaths occurred in the specialty wards, including the surgical intensive unit, respiratory intensive care unit, acute medical unit, neo-natal intensive care ward and the emergency ward.
Reportedly, Divisional Engineer, Southern Power Distribution Company Limited, Secunderabad, confirmed the power failure in the hospital and that it had some troubles with its own generating equipment.
Allegedly, there had been similar power failure in June also and the hospital had to rely on its four generators.
Gandhi Hospital is a premier 1,200-bed Tertiary Care Hospital and caters to a large number of patients coming not only from the 10 districts of Telangana, but also from neighbouring states of Maharashtra and Karnataka, the NHRC observed.
