Rajasthan: Probe ordered as video of nurses dancing in ICU goes viral

ALWAR: A video has gone viral in which employees of government-run

Rajiv Gandhi Hospital

in

Alwar

are seen dancing to the tunes of songs in a

surgical ICU

. Taking action against the three hospital employees — two nursing staff and a contractual sanitation worker — who are seen dancing in the video, the hospital has terminated the service of the contractual employee, while the two nursing staff have been shifted to other departments from the surgical ICU.

Music was playing loudly and the three staff who were wearing personal protection equipment (PPE) were dancing to its tunes. The surgical ICU was vacant at the time of filming the video. The video was shot on the intervening night of Monday-Tuesday. “We have terminated the services of the contractual sanitation worker and the two nursing staff have been shifted to other departments. An inquiry into the matter has been initiated,” said Dr

Sunil Chauhan

, principal medical officer, Rajiv Gandhi Hospital.

The three-member committee looking into the matter comprises deputy controller, nursing superintendent and a physician. The committee has been asked to submit the report in 24 hours.

The accused nursing staff were identified as Pradeep Kumar and Yogesh Yadav. One of them has been shifted to trauma centre and the other to medicine ward. The services of sanitation worker Ajay has been terminated.

According to the hospital administration, the ICU was reserved for Covid-19 patients but as the number of Covid patients has gone down, they converted the ICU again into surgical ICU three days ago.

Hospital’s deputy controller Dr Sushil Batra said that after the video went viral, principal medical officer Dr Chauhan constituted a committee. The committee will present its report after investigating into the matter. The motive behind recording such video will be investigated. It was a six-bedded Covid ICU but now it has been turned into 10-bedded surgical ICU after Covid cases went down.

After recording the video, the persons seen purportedly dancing in the video, shared the video in nurses’ groups on a social networking online app. The nurses on the social group raised objection against the video following which the accused nurses apologised for their actions.