<p>The trouble for the government is far from over as it turned out that drivers too doubled up as doctors at government hospitals in the state. <br /><br /></p>.<p>Though the state government ordered a high-level probe into the allegations of sweepers and ward boys treating patients at Bulandshahar district hospital, this new revelation is likely to cause more embarrassment.<br /><br />A local news channel aired visuals showing a youth, who later turned out to be the driver of the chief medical officer (CMO), giving drips to a patient at a government hospital in Kushinagar, about 325 kilometres from here.<br /><br />“As there were no doctors at the hospital then, the driver gave the drip,” said a patient’s attendant.<br /><br />Another video footage showed a sweeper giving injections to the patients at a government hospital in Ballia. <br /><br />The sweeper, though refused to identify himself, admitted candidly that he doubled up as a doctor when the need arose.<br /><br />Meanwhile, an embarrassed government rushed director general of health services <br />Dr Chiranjeev Lal to Bulandshahar on Wednesday to look into the allegations. <br /><br />“The DG will be submitting his report shortly after which action will be taken. No one has been given a clean chit,” said health minister Ahmed Hasan.<br /><br />Meanwhile, the Bulandshahar district hospital employees allegedly manhandled the media personnel on Wednesday when the they reached there to talk to the DG, health.<br /><br /> Some scribes were roughed by the hospital staff when they tried to get near Dr Lal to speak to him, reports said. <br /><br />Ward boys and sweepers were found to be giving stitches and injections to critically wounded people at the government hospital in Bulandshahar. <br /><br />The hospital administration, quite brazenly, said the man shown in the visuals giving stitches was an employee of the hospital and but not a doctor.<br /><br />Only a few months back, auxiliary nurse midwives were found to have helped in delivery of babies in candlelight as there was no power and the generator was out of order at a community health centre in Barabanki district.</p>
<p>The trouble for the government is far from over as it turned out that drivers too doubled up as doctors at government hospitals in the state. <br /><br /></p>.<p>Though the state government ordered a high-level probe into the allegations of sweepers and ward boys treating patients at Bulandshahar district hospital, this new revelation is likely to cause more embarrassment.<br /><br />A local news channel aired visuals showing a youth, who later turned out to be the driver of the chief medical officer (CMO), giving drips to a patient at a government hospital in Kushinagar, about 325 kilometres from here.<br /><br />“As there were no doctors at the hospital then, the driver gave the drip,” said a patient’s attendant.<br /><br />Another video footage showed a sweeper giving injections to the patients at a government hospital in Ballia. <br /><br />The sweeper, though refused to identify himself, admitted candidly that he doubled up as a doctor when the need arose.<br /><br />Meanwhile, an embarrassed government rushed director general of health services <br />Dr Chiranjeev Lal to Bulandshahar on Wednesday to look into the allegations. <br /><br />“The DG will be submitting his report shortly after which action will be taken. No one has been given a clean chit,” said health minister Ahmed Hasan.<br /><br />Meanwhile, the Bulandshahar district hospital employees allegedly manhandled the media personnel on Wednesday when the they reached there to talk to the DG, health.<br /><br /> Some scribes were roughed by the hospital staff when they tried to get near Dr Lal to speak to him, reports said. <br /><br />Ward boys and sweepers were found to be giving stitches and injections to critically wounded people at the government hospital in Bulandshahar. <br /><br />The hospital administration, quite brazenly, said the man shown in the visuals giving stitches was an employee of the hospital and but not a doctor.<br /><br />Only a few months back, auxiliary nurse midwives were found to have helped in delivery of babies in candlelight as there was no power and the generator was out of order at a community health centre in Barabanki district.</p>
