BHAGALPUR: The
Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College and Hospital (
JLNMCH) has formed a three-member committee to probe how 35
oxygen cylinders went missing from the indoor patients’ wards of the Covid-dedicated hospital.
Sources said the roles of paramedical staff, security guards and attendants of patients admitted in the hospital were under scanner. The JLNMCH administration is likely to lodge an FIR with Barari police station in this regard soon.
The matter to light after the JLNMCH management made an inventory of the oxygen cylinders on Thursday and found 35 cylinders missing from the hospital wards.
“It is a serious issue. A three-member probe committee comprising Covid-19 nodal officer in isolation ward at JLNMCH Dr P B Mishra, Dr Arjun Singh (head of anaesthesia department) and Dr Kumar Gaurav (associate professor in psychiatry department and former medical superintendent at JLNMCH) has been formed to investigate the matter,” JLNMCH medical superintendent Dr Asim Kumar Das said.
He added the probe team would quiz the paramedical staff, nurses and others, including the guards, and also scan CCTV camera footages.