In continuing woe for the inmates of the State-run shelter home for the distressed women, Nari Niketan, three more inmates have been admitted at the Doon Hospital after they were taken ill on Saturday.
An inmate who was over eight months pregnant and staying in the shelter home was admitted on Thursday after falling sick. She has been staying in shelter home since May 16. The number of inmates taking ill and admitted at the premier State-run facility, is now 15, said Additional Secretary (Social Welfare) Manoj Chandran. He said that without taking risk, three more inmates were admitted on Saturday after they were taken ill.
Acting Chief Medical Superintendent (CMS), Dehradun, KC Pant said that three more inmates named 35-year old Mithilesh, 58-year old Kiran and 43-year old Guddi were admitted in the hospital on Saturday. They are being kept under observation. The eight months pregnant inmate was transferred to the Doon Hospital from the Doon Women’s Hospital on Saturday evening, he added.
Pant said that a team comprising Dr NS Khatri and Dr Harish Basra, lab technicians, dieticians and psychologists had already conducted the medical check-ups of all the inmates staying in shelter home on Tuesday and their reports would soon be submitted.
The condition of 15 inmates admitted to the Doon Hospital is stable. The admitted inmates are Shalini, 40, Ashma, 45, Kusum 32, Ramdulari 62, Kanchan 47, Indrawati 35 and Heena, 36,Shalini, 40, Ashma, 45, Mithilesh, 35, Kiran, 58, Guddi, 43, Kusum 32, Razia, 36 and a pregnant woman. They are all under the doctors’ round the clock observation, he added.
Most of the inmates now admitted at the hospital are suffering from anemia, he added. Moreover, regarding Nari Niketan issue, Special Investigation Team (SIT) led by SP City Ajay Singh had already been formed.
Moreover, two inmates died in a span of just three days at Doon Hospital recently, Dehradun district magistrate Ravi Nath Raman had already formed a team headed by additional district magistrate (finance) Jharna Kamthan with the chief medical officer and social welfare officer as its members.
This team has been directed to conduct an inquiry and further submit its report within a month. The team members have already begun the investigation.