Rourkela: Director of Rourkela Government Hospital (RGH) has written to the SP here requesting him to expedite the investigation into the mortuary freezers missing case.
Ever since Dr Ganesh Dash has taken over as the director of this premier government healthcare facility, he has unearthed a couple of big irregularities. During the course of one such investigation, it was found June 22, 2024 that four mortuary freezers (freezer boxes meant for preserving bodies) were missing from the store house. On the same day, the director lodged a complaint in Raghunathpali police station that registered a case in this regard.
Meanwhile, an internal probe was launched and the needle of suspicion is pointed towards the involvement of the hospital manager who went on leave the day after the incident came to the fore. “He applied for leave on the same day citing ill health of his wife and that he would take her to a doctor for consultation,” said the director of RGH. Since then, his mobile is showing switched-off. He has remained incommunicado till date, he added.
The director cancelled his leave June 25 as his absence hampered the investigation. “I found his answers not very convincing and that raised my suspicion on him and about the missing freezers,” Dash said. Finally, the same day, he came and told me that it was Ramdev Enterprise which supplied the new freezers by replacing the old ones. And when I asked him on what authority you gave away the freezers and what is the status of those items, he told me that they have been dismantled.” The director, through mail, had asked him to join office and cooperate in the investigations. However, the manager has not responded. In his letter to the SP and DIG Rourkela, Dash has requested for furthering the probe.
PNN