A day after, sanitary worker from Government Rajaji Hospital sacked, but not doctor whose order she followed
MADURAI: A day after Express reported that a sanitary worker was made to administer saline to a patient at Government Rajaji Hospital in Madurai, the hospital management has immediately removed the worker.
But the house surgeon who actually instructed the worker to do the task would face action only after “a detailed inquiry”.
But the house surgeon who actually instructed the worker to do the task would face action only after “a detailed inquiry”.
On the larger question of acute shortage of nurses in the hospital, there are no clear answers yet. “Yes, I have terminated her,” Dr D Maruthupandian, Dean, (in-charge) of the government hospital told Express on Sunday. When asked what action has been taken against the house surgeon who instructed her to do the task or the nurses who were absent from duty, he said,”We will conduct a detailed enquiry and based on the findings we will take action on the house surgeons or the nurses.”
The worker, originally a staff of Padmavathi Hospitality and Facilities Management Services (PHFMS) that supplies manpower to various institutions, was found administering saline on Friday night around 11.45 pm on instructions of a house surgeon. With the hospital making her the scapegoat, she now faces loss of employment — all for following the instructions of a superior in her work place. “We will sack her from the agency if the hospital officials say,” said an official of the manpower agency when asked if she was merely transferred from the hospital.
When Express spoke to a few officials of the manpower agency, they said the sanitary worker had done the task only after the house surgeon instructed her so. “They never get involved in treating patients. But it’s the doctors who often ask the worker to do tasks even in operation theaters, which otherwise should be done only by the nurses or technical staff.”
Hospital short staffed
When queried about the shortage of nurses in the hospital, sources in the hospital said, “There are 414 fever cases admitted today alone. We are trying our best to treat them despite shortage of doctors and nurses. We had also taken up the issue of (manpower) shortage with the government several times.”
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