With the State Government facing flak from all quarters for the sorry state of things at the Government-run shelter home for the distressed women Nari Niketan, Uttarakhand Pradesh Congress Committee president Kishor Upadhyay visited Doon Hospital on Wednesday to enquire into the   current health status of the  home’s inmates recently admitted to the facility with failing health. Eight inmates have been admitted to the hospital over the past one week.

Updhyay reached the ward where the inmates have been admitted and took stock of their medical status. He is said to have told Doon Hospital’s chief medical superintendent (CMS) in-charge KC Pant to provide  the inmates proper treatment. He later said that fund  is no constraint as far as their treatment is concerned. The State Government has committed to take all possible measures to provide them with the right  kind of treatment, he added.

The condition of eight inmates admitted to the Doon Hospital is stable, said acting chief medical superintendent (CMS), Dehradun KC Pant. The admitted inmates are Shalini, 40, Ashma, 45 and Kusum 32, Razia 36, Ramdulari 62, Kanchan 47, Indrawati 35 and Heena, 36 and they are all under the doctors’ round the clock observation. 

Two deaths-one of mentally disordered 35-year-old Shivani and the  other of 25- year-old  Rekha 25-in two successive days rattled the administration  and the State government with the Opposition raising hammer and tongs  over the alleged sordid state of things haunting the home.

While speaking of the alleged rape and abortion of a speech and hearing impaired inmate of Nari Niketan by unidentified persons, Upadhyay had earlier said things were all right  at the home. later, in a few days,  pilloried  over such comment by the Opposition, he had done a volte face , saying that he had made such a comment on the basis of what Nainital MlA and Uttarakhand Pradesh Mahila Congress Committee president Sarita Arya  had said after  they had visited the facility and talked to the security staffers there.