Surat hospital sealed for want of fire NOC, a day after inauguration

The infirmary is owned by Dr B R Shukla, Dr G P Mishra, and Dr R K Dubey.

Talking to The Indian Express, Pandesara constabulary inspector H M Gadhvi said, “Surat constabulary had registered cases against Dr Shukla and Dr Dubey arsenic they were moving their clinics successful Bamroli country without showing valid degrees. Dr Mishra has 3 prohibition cases filed against him successful 2020 – 1 each successful Surat City, Surat Rural and Navsari constabulary station. All 3 are retired connected bail.”

The infirmary absorption had extended invitation cards to Surat Municipal Commissioner Shalini Agrawal, requesting her to beryllium the main guest, and Surat Police Commissioner Anupam Singh Gahlaut and Joint Police Commissioner, Traffic and Crime, Raghvendra Vatsa, asking them to beryllium guests of honour. While Agrawal and Gahlaut gave the lawsuit a miss, Vatsa was contiguous connected Sunday afternoon.

With apical metropolis officials invited to the event, officials from Pandesara constabulary country and the Surat Municipal Corporation besides arrived astatine the event.

However, arsenic soon arsenic the invitation paper started doing the rounds connected societal media, respective radical pointed retired the antecedents of the owners, prompting the teams from the Surat occurrence section and CDHO to scope the infirmary connected Monday.

Surat Fire serviceman Ishwar Patel said, “The infirmary authorities person installed occurrence information instrumentality but it is not up to the mark. The strategy was successful non-operational information and determination was nary exigency exit. The authorities had not adjacent applied for the Fire Safety Certificate.”

The CDHO teams are presently probing whether the 3 owners adjacent person valid aesculapian certificate and licence to commencement a infirmary pursuing which a transgression lawsuit would beryllium registered, if needed.

Pandesara constabulary inspector Gadhvi said, “We are waiting for the study of CDHO teams and volition aboriginal determine our aboriginal people of action.”

Surat CDHO Dr Anil Patel said, “We person sent our teams to the infirmary to transportation retired a probe. The infirmary authorities had not applied to our bureau for registration. Before starting specified a hospital, they should astatine slightest pass us. Our teams volition cheque whether the certificates of these doctors are genuine oregon not. Our squad volition besides cheque if they person a bio-medical discarded certificate. Besides, it volition besides cheque whether the nursing unit are qualified oregon not arsenic per Gujarat Nursing Council oregon Gujarat Medical Council norms. Our teams volition hole a study aft which we volition determine our aboriginal people of action.”

JCP Vatsa said, “I attended the lawsuit arsenic they had travel and extended an invitation to me. They had taken my support earlier putting my sanction connected the invitation card. I attended the lawsuit for conscionable 10 minutes. I had to instrumentality and be to immoderate different anterior appointments. I was unaware of the transgression cases connected the 3 doctors.”

Commissioner Gahlaut said, “I did not be the inaugural event. They had enactment my sanction (on the invite) without my consent. The infirmary has present been sealed by occurrence section officials. We person directed Pandesara constabulary to instrumentality ineligible enactment and registry a case.”