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Expressing his unhappiness implicit the attraction of malnourished children successful the nutrition rehabilitation centre astatine Government Wenlock Hospital, In-charge Chairperson of Karnataka State Commission for Protection of Child Rights Shashidhar S. Kosambe said present connected Friday (November 7) that nary due registry is maintained astir the children taken attraction of astatine the centre.
During his sojourn to the centre connected Friday, Mr. Kosambe took Hospital Superintendent D.S. Shivaprakash, Reproductive and Child Health Officer B.V. Rajesh, and District Health and Family Welfare Officer H. Thimmaiah to task for lack of this record.
Mr. Kosambe said 28 children successful Dakshina Kannada person been identified arsenic severely malnourished children. They should person been brought to the centre and taken attraction of for 14 days earlier being sent backmost home. Apart from providing them with the required nutrition, the State government, since August, had to wage a regular wage of ₹370 for each time that a genitor stayed astatine the centre.
To Mr. Kosambe’s question arsenic to wherefore parents were being paid the earlier wage of ₹100 and not the revised ₹370 since August, Dr. Shivaprakash said the bid revising the wages was officially delivered to him connected Friday (November 7). Healthcare unit astatine the centre said nary genitor was staying determination for 14 days and was really leaving aft the archetypal 2 days of treatment.
The in-charge Chairperson expressed his displeasure towards the centre’s unit for the improper mode successful which the nutritious substance and different ingredients were being stored astatine the centre. Asking Dr. Shivaprakash to contented a announcement to the authoritative in-charge of the centre, Mr. Kosambe directed him and Dr. Thimmaiah to taxable a study astir the centre to the KCPCR successful the adjacent 3 days.
Mr. Kosambe said helium had earlier visited centres successful Mysuru and Chamarajanagar, wherever excessively helium recovered determination were nary due records astir children treated astatine the centre. “It’s a bully strategy but I spot a deficiency of involvement connected the portion of officials successful implementing it,” helium told reporters.
He past visited the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit successful the Wenlock Hospital’s Regional Advanced Paediatric Care Centre and recovered that the air-conditioning strategy was not working. Dr. Shivaprakash said it volition beryllium repaired successful 2 days.
The in-charge KCPCR Chairperson besides visited the NICU ward and step-down NICU ward successful the Government Lady Goschen Hospital.
