Nizamabad Government General Hospital superintendent resigns over Covid issues

HYDERABAD: Nizamabad Government General Hospital superintendent Nageshwara Rao has resigned owing moral responsibility for the events that took place in the hospital in the last few days. On Monday, Nageshwara Rao sent his resignation to the director of medical education and also informed his colleagues.
Recently, three Covid patients had died at the hospital and one of the bodies was handed over to the family members by the hospital staff without following protocol.The body was taken in an auto by the family which also conducted the last rites without following guidelines. An enquiry has been ordered by the superintendent on who handed over the body to the family. There were also allegations that there was no supply of oxygen to Covid patients in the hospital as a result of which they had died.
Nageshwara Rao, however, had told TOI that there was enough stock of oxygen in the hospital. On the body of one patient who died of Covid was handed over to the family, he said it indeed was a grave issue and that should not have happened. The director of medical education had also asked that criminal cases be booked against those responsible for the body being given to the family members without following protocol. Preliminary enquiry revealed that the family was unwilling to wait for an ambulance which had taken the body of another Covid death case for the last rites.
When TOI tried to reach Nageshwara Rao, he was not immediately available to confirm and explain why he had put in his papers.