Sanitation contractors of government hospitals are not bothered with incidents of rat bites
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Hyderabad: Sanitation contractors of government hospitals are not bothered with incidents of rat bites in the wards as their bills are cleared regularly. “Rodent menace” is not a parameter that the sanitation contractors in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana are penalised for. Superintendents of each hospital awards marks at the end of each month on various parameters like garbage, spider web clearance, mopping floors etc., based on which their bills are cleared.
With the rat bite incident at the Guntur General Hospital (GGH), doctors are now demanding that the government includes “rodent menace” as a parameter and deduct marks from sanitation contractors every time a rat is spotted in a hospital. GGH at Guntur and Vizag’s King George Hospital (KGH) are facing rat menace as they are situated next to either railway stations or railway tracks and a huge college campus.
In fact, Agriculture University students of Bapatla would select the Guntur GGH as their project area to study “rodent menace”. They had found that rats had dug mini tunnels from the railway station and AC College to the hospital.
According to a senior medical education department official, “The rodent menace in Gun-tur General Hospital is not today’s issue. It has been there since the 1960s. Railway stations are plagued by the rat menace. The old Gandhi Hospital was situated beside a railway station, where rats used to be a serious menace. The rat menace has to be viewed seriously and action needs to be taken.”
( Source : deccan chronicle )
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