In yet another incident of negligence by hospital authorities, a man admitted in State of coma at a Government hospital in Ratlam was bitten by rats on Monday.
The 27-year-old Suraj Singh Bhati is admitted to Ratlam Government hospital for close to three months. Bhati had met with an accident on May 29 as he was going towards Ringnod on his bike. The man is in coma since then and is attended by his father Rajendra Singh Bhati.
As the father got up inside his ward on Monday morning, he saw his son’s ankle bleeding and skin pieces strewn all around on the bed. He did not waste much time in realising that his son was bitten was rat.
As he informed the hospital staff, they simply dressed the wound.
Civil Surgeon Dr Anand Chandelkar claimed that days ago the hospital had carried out pest control but the drive could not end all the rats. Due to monsoon season, the pits are filled with water and the rodents were rushing towards the hospital building, explained the physician claiming that the company doing pest control would be summoned again.
Patient’s father also claimed that free movement of rats inside the wards was a common sight in the hospital. Few ago, body of a man lying in mortuary in Jaora hospital (Ratlam district) was also nibbled by rats.