A clerk of Sheikh Bikhari Medical College and Hospital has been suspended on the recommendation of Deputy Commissioner, Hazaribag. He has been ordered to report to the civil surgeon office, Gumla. He will be there till the investigation is going on.
After an FIR in Sadar Police station by the hospital deputy superintendent, DC Aditya Kumar Anand had constituted a team to find out the facts. The team submitted the report to the deputy commissioner with the recommendations.
The enquiry report was sent to the Health department of Jharkhand Government. On the basis of the report the health department dismissed the service of accountant Bhola Shankar Gupta. The Health department has now suspended the clerk of the hospital Ravi Ranjan Kumar.
The Special Investigation Team has opened the fact that the oxygen cylinders from the medical college and hospital store to private hospitals during the peak period of second waves of Covid-19. The cylinders were not returned by the hospital store by the private hospitals.
The SIT has sent three employees of an outsourcing company behind the bars till on Saturday.
The SIT has started a detailed investigation of outsourcing company. As many as150 employees of the company have been working since the opening of the medical college and hospital in Hazaribag.
The SIT team said the role of the outsourcing company in the hospital was doubtful. The investigating team also found out how the two cylinders reached the civil surgeon’s residence. The team is also trying to know the name of powerful persons of the town, who kept hospital cylinders in their houses.