Due to negligence of Max Super Speciality Hospital staff, three persons who were cleaning a sewerage treatment plant at the hospital died on Monday night.
Moreover, Nitin Kumar, the contractor who had employed these workers in Max Hospital has lodged an FIR under section 304 of IPC against Hospital managing director, engineer and hospital contractor in Rajpur Police station on Tuesday.
The deceased have been identified as sanitation workers Akshay Kumar, Rakesh Kumar and electrician Manmohan.
Sources in the police department said that two sanitation works who reached the sewerage treatment plant for cleaning it had become unconscious from methane gas emitting from the sewerage treatment plant. losing their balance, they fell into the plant.
To check the duo working there, Manmohan also reached the site and also became unconscious due to the methane and fell into the treatment plant. Hospital staff knew about this incident about 15 minutes after it occurred, but informed the police after half an hour on not finding a small oxygen cylinder in the hospital. Had these persons been provided oxygen on time, their lives might have been saved.
They lost their life due to Max Hospital staff’s negligence, added the police officer. Though hospital management claims that it has been equipped with all life saving equipments, they did not have small oxygen cylinders for emergencies. Dehradun SP City Navneet Singh said that a case has been registered in the Rajpur Police Station and is being investigated. Meanwhile, the family members of the deceased men met the SSP Kewal Khurana on Tuesday and demanded action against the hospital authorities and adequate compensation.