MCI TEAM INSPECTS K.R, CHELUVAMBA HOSPITALS 

A delegation of three doctors from Medical Council of India (MCI) visited Cheluvamba and K.R. Hospital in city today and conducted an inspection.

Dr. Kannan and Dr. Sherval conducted a thorough inspection of the K.R.Hospital while Dr. Asha Shaha inspected Cheluvamba Hospital.

During the inspection, MCI delegates detected numerous lapses in the hospitals and instructed the medical officers to rectify them.

The delegation was shown round the hospital by Dr. B.D.Sathyanarayana, Superintendent of K.R. Hospital, Dr. B.C. Vasthrad, Principal of Mysore Medical College, Dr. B.G. Sagar, HoD of
Orthopaedics, Dr. Vasudev Naik, Dr. Geetha Avadhani, HoD of Surgery, Dr. H.K. Hanumanthappa, HoD of Dermatology, Chief Matron Lalithamma and other officials.

The MCI delegates reprimanded the hospital administrators for not displaying the bed numbers in the wards and instructed them to provide Teaching Area in each ward, with a prominent signboard.

They also found the Central Oxygen Unit in the Intensive Cardiac Care Unit (ICCU) out of order and took the hospital staff to task for the lapse.

The hospital's Blood Bank was found to be violating the MCI norm of not possessing the mandatory permit from the Drug Control Authority of India, without which they are not supposed to operate the Blood Bank.

The visiting delegates were amused to be confronted by an inpatient who presented them with a polythene sachet containing about 30 bed bugs, much to the embarrassment of the hospital staff.

The patient claimed that he had collected all the bugs from his bed since the previous night. This time, it was the turn of Chief Matron Lalithamma to be pulled up by the visiting medicos, giving warning.

The inspection went on till afternoon. Later, the MCI delegation will take a count of the existing hospital staff on the basis of their photo-identity cards and discuss various problems with them.

The delegation will inspect the Mysore Medical College tomorrow and then leave for Bangalore in the afternoon.