HYDERABAD: After final week’s rape of a affected person at Osmania General Hospital (OGH), authorities have now decided to place in place gates at secluded puts and lock a minimum of 10-15 departments post their operational hours.
“As and when a department closes, we will be able to lock it up. The neurology department, for example, shuts by 1pm, so after that, it will be locked. Also, further gates might be put up to prohibit get admission to to those spaces and safety personnel might be given orders accordingly. They might be suggested handy over the keys to the resident medical officer (RMO),” OGH superintendent Dr B Nagender advised TOI. With body of workers and other workers at the health facility accustomed to remoted pockets, management hopes that the transfer would prevent such incidents.
The latest choice is important because a minimum of three-five domestic violence sufferers flip up at OGH on a daily basis for treatment. In maximum cases, sources say, the ladies come to the health facility alone, making them prone to sexual attacks.
NGO Helping Hand Foundation president Mujtaba Hasan Askari said, “Although improving safety and CCTV cameras are necessary; the health facility will have to have counselling facilities both for the affected person in addition to members of the family.”
Also, while restricting get admission to to ‘blind spots’ like the OP block where the incident occurred is pertinent, medical doctors say that a dormitory-like arrange for housing such sufferers will have to be created to verify safety.
“As and when a department closes, we will be able to lock it up. The neurology department, for example, shuts by 1pm, so after that, it will be locked. Also, further gates might be put up to prohibit get admission to to those spaces and safety personnel might be given orders accordingly. They might be suggested handy over the keys to the resident medical officer (RMO),” OGH superintendent Dr B Nagender advised TOI. With body of workers and other workers at the health facility accustomed to remoted pockets, management hopes that the transfer would prevent such incidents.
The latest choice is important because a minimum of three-five domestic violence sufferers flip up at OGH on a daily basis for treatment. In maximum cases, sources say, the ladies come to the health facility alone, making them prone to sexual attacks.
NGO Helping Hand Foundation president Mujtaba Hasan Askari said, “Although improving safety and CCTV cameras are necessary; the health facility will have to have counselling facilities both for the affected person in addition to members of the family.”
Also, while restricting get admission to to ‘blind spots’ like the OP block where the incident occurred is pertinent, medical doctors say that a dormitory-like arrange for housing such sufferers will have to be created to verify safety.
Osmania hosp to lock secluded areas after work hrs
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