Bhubaneswar, Aug 29: The Odisha Director General of Police (DGP) on Sunday directed all Chief District Medical Officers (CDMOs) to ensure CCTV camera to be installed at every hospital in their respective districts due to the recent attack incidents on the medicos of the government hospitals.
Besides, the DGP also directed all SPs to tighten police security in hospital premises and initiate strict action against lawbreakers.
Notably, on August 19, through a letter, the Health Secretary Arati Ahuja had requested the Home Department to open police outposts in the premises of District Headquarters Hospital, Sub-divisional hospitals and all tertiary care institutions, besides installing CCTV cameras
A medicine specialist doctor named Bharat Samal, was admitted to the ICU on August 19, as he sustained critical injuries when the relative of a patient attacked him alleging medical negligence at Balasore district headquarters hospital.
In another incident, the doctors at the Puri District Headquarters hospital on August 18 had ceased work citing the failure of the district administration to provide security to them after relatives of a patient, who died at the hospital, ransacked the hospital premises and attacked the doctors. Later, after an assurance by the Puri SP Sarthak Sarangi for 24X7 security to the doctors, the cease work stir by the doctors was called off.
