Indore: The Indore Chief Medical and Health Officer (CMHO), Bherulal Saitya, has received a show cause notice from the Health Department of Madhya Pradesh.
The notice has emerged following reports that he gave unsupervised permissions to a private hospital without visiting the facility. In particular, the notice relates to some violations in the process of New ANS Hospital registration.
From the records, it was since reported and established that Aniruddha Richariya, the Director of New ANS Hospital, had provided some documents for registration that did not tally. The issue about the permission soon cropped up that the hospital did not have permits which was reported by Lokesh Parihar in a public hearing with Indore Collector in January 2024. Subsequently and based on this complaint the CMHO served a show-cause notice to New ANS Hospital to provide forthwith all original documents which shall be verified.
Further investigation meant there were other issues when the hospital had not provided the necessary documents. Before, this hospital was plying its trade under the name of ANS Hospital but liabilities arising from several operational wrongdoings had led to the cancellation of the hospital’s registration. The matter was even taken to Lokayukta who then referred the case to the Department of Health Services on the recommended action.
Based upon these observations, the state government resolved to place CMHO Saitya on the line of responsibilities and served a show-cause notice. He has been given three days to justify the lack of proper scrutiny in the granting of registration. Another area where the government has apparent concern involves procedural delay or negligence and concerns about possible adherence to disciplinary measures of the CMHO.
This misfortune has brought out organizational culture violations linking it to the failure to adhere to set standards and policies in health services. Presumably, the result of this inquiry will determine how permissions of this nature will be managed in the future.
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