‘BRD kept no record of oxygen supply, fudged log books too’
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The Baba Raghav Das Medical College administration did not maintain any record of oxygen supply to the hospital, a probe conducted by Gorakhpur district magistrate-led committee has revealed. The state government had ordered a magisterial inquiry into the deaths of children on August 12.
During investigation, members of the committee — additional commissioner Sanjay Kumar Singh and chief medical officer Dr Ravindra Kumar — scanned the oxygen supply record of the college and found no stock and log register of the oxygen supply was being maintained before August.
Blaming the in-charge for oxygen supply Dr Satish and chief pharmacist Gajanan Jaiswal for anomalies, the officers said overwriting was detected in the stock and log book of August. When the additional commissioner directed the two to present the stock register since March, they expressed helplessness and produced the stock register of August only.
When asked how the medical college made payments if stock register was not maintained, both of them refused to comment. The committee found the in-charges did not put their signatures on the stock registers as well.
The two have submitted their report to the DM who has forwarded it to the state government.
“The BRD Medical College administration did not maintain the record of the procurement of oxygen, supply to the wards and stock available in stores,” said an official at the state medical education department.