District health department officials are all set to take stringent action against five medical establishments in Bokaro Steel City and Chas includes Mamta Nursing Home, Lal Pathology Lab, Vrindavan Nursing Home at Bokaro Steel City and Asha Sakhi and Jeevandeep Hospital at Chas after finding several irregularities and lacking during a surprise inspection. 

On Monday a team of district health department officials and State officials conducted surprise inspection on those medical establishments and found several irregularities there. “Today we have submitted a report to S Murmu civil surgeon Bokaro who submitted it to the Deputy Commissioner MK Barnwal,” informed Rahul Kumar Singh Co-ordinator of state team.

“The report reveals that those establishments were running without valid certificastes, lack of doctors and medical experts there.

The team found improper sanitation, negligence and lack of proper hygiene standards with lack of cleaning there,” said Dr S Murmu, Civil Surgeon Bokaro.

“All of them were found with flouting the biomedical water disposal norms. The team also seized expired medicines form those nursing homes,” he added.

Meanwhile, the district health authority is all set to crack whip on private hospitals, nursing homes and ultrasound centres running illegally across the district. Alarmed over the blatant flouting of norms by the local medical establishments-department has taken stiff action in a meeting held at Civil Surgeon office today.

A special drive would be conducted and establishments running without registration under clinical establishment act or running illegal would be sealed, said S Murmu Civil Surgeon Bokaro.

“Surprise inspection on ultrasound centres and pathology labs would also be carried out,” he added.

Notably, there are more than 500 clinical establishments are running across the district and only a few were got registered under the act. According to the norms, each and every clinical establishment should get provisional registration number within 14 days from the date it applied to the District Registration Authority, said an official.

District Registration Authority is a committee headed by DC, Civil Surgeon, IMA authorized person, one AYUSH person and president of Zila Parishad, he said.  And if the establishment fulfils the norms that will get permanent registration number within two months otherwise their registration would be cancelled, he said.