"I am not responsible for the safety of some else's babies, nor do I have any information of how many babies went missing from this hospital," thundered the Superintendent of Niloufer Hospital, a day after a one-month old girl went
missing from there.
The Superintendent is understandably a harried man, since this is not the first time he has had to face questions over a missing baby - in January this year, a 3-day-old baby had gone missing from the hospital.
The security situation is so pathetic at the hospital that it is a wonder why more cases of theft, human beings or material possessions, are not reported.
A half-hour observation of the activities at the main door of the hospital reveals that it takes just Rs. 5 to gain entry inside the building, for all and sundry.
When INN tried to follow up on the case in which a girl went missing on Tuesday, the watchmen would simply not allow the media inside the hospital, claiming it was against regulations. Seemingly, access inside the hospital is easy for everyone except the media.
An argument later, this correspondent was marched up to the Superintendent, who made the sensational comment that he is not responsible for the safety of the patients.
The Superintendent then dropped another bombshell, saying that no baby has been missing from the hospital, and that the media reports about the incidents are false. According to him, as per hospital records, a baby went missing from the hospital only around 4 years ago.
A security supervisor at the hospital said that the guards have instructions to check the birth certificates of all babies before letting parents take them out. He added that only attendants are permitted inside the wards.
If the security supervisor's words are true, then the Superintendent is also right in saying that there was no case of any missing baby.
This basically means that the world, including the grieving parents of the baby, is against the hospital where security is sold for a paltry Rs. 5.
Courtesy: INN