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Shivamogga Deputy Commissioner Gurudatta Hegde has instructed the officers of the Health and Family Welfare Department to guarantee that snakebite cases are attended to without hold and besides sought a study from the officers connected caller incidents of negligence successful handling specified cases.
Mr. Hegde held a gathering with the officers of the section successful Shivamogga connected Thursday. “There had been incidents of lack of doctors astatine wellness centres to grip snakebite cases. The officers should taxable a study astir specified instances. Negligence of doctors successful delivering their duties volition not tolerated,” helium stated.
Referring to an incidental astatine Matthur successful Hosanagara taluk, wherever unit of the 108 ambulance work did not respond to a telephone regarding a snakebite case, the Deputy Commissioner directed the officers to registry a lawsuit against the unit for negligence. Further, helium besides sought a study from the officers with respect to the decease of a pistillate portion delivering a babe successful Shikaripur taluk.
Mr. Hegde suggested that the officers marque alternate arrangements if doctors astatine superior wellness centres spell connected leave. If immoderate quacks were recovered treating snakebite cases, the officers should instrumentality due enactment against them, the Deputy Commissioner said.
District Health and Family Welfare serviceman Nataraj, District Surveillance Officer Nagaraj Naik, and others attended the meeting.
