New Delhi : As Delhi continues to grapple with the raging dengue crisis that has claimed 37 lives so far, 14 doctors have been served show cause notices after they were found “sleeping or loitering” during duty hours.
The notices for dereliction of duty were issued after Delhi’s Health Minister Satyendar Jain and some senior officials made surprise visits to government hospitals at odd hours following the worst outbreak of the vector-borne disease in six years, reports PTI.
“The Health Minister, Satyendar Jain, visited the hospitals between 11.45 PM and 6 AM to check their preparedness in terms of dealing with the dengue patients and found some doctors sleeping while being on duty, while some were found loitering in other wards when they should have been at a particular ward,” a health department official said. “Fourteen doctors from seven hospitals have been issued show cause notices in this context,” he said, adding some staff nurses also have been issued such notices.
The department is now awaiting response to the notices before it considers whether to take action against them.
