After 3 cases, patient security at MGMMCH under scanner

Jamshedpur: The management of Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College and Hospital (MGMMCH) on Tuesday said it is improving security measures on campus after three major incidents took place in the past fortnight.

Security measures at MGMMCH came under scanner again after a 54-year-old man from Bagbera area of the city, who had gone missing two days after being hospitalised, was found dead in a pile of waste on the hospital campus on Monday evening.

On March 9, a burn ward patient went missing and was found loitering at the civil court premises the next day. On March 20, another patient sneaked up to the fourth floor of the hospital before jumping to his death.

Dr Jujhar Majhi, deputy medical superintendent, said, “Patients have been prohibited from walking out of the ward after 9 pm. Besides, they must be accompanied by an attendant while going to the toilet at night. In case a patient does not have an attendant, on-duty nurse or ward boy will assist them.”

“The windows are being fitted with grilles and slider doors will be equipped with a lock system,” Majhi further said.

Sunil Yadav, an autorickshaw driver, was admitted to the medicine ward on March 13 with complaints of dizziness and weakness and went missing two days later. Sunil’s son Abhay on Tuesday claimed the hospital was not serious to carry out a search for his father even despite multiple complaints. “Hospital did not even share the CCTV footage to get a clue whether my father went out of the campus or not. For nine days we were wandering aimlessly in search of our father,” Abhay said. Yadav’s body was found behind the cath lab late on Monday evening.

Rejecting Abhay’s claims, Majhi said a probe has been ordered. “We are conducting a probe to find out how the patient went out of the ward and also the cause of the death and recovery of the body from the premises,” he said.