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In a shocking incident, thoroughfare dogs had reportedly eaten distant an amputated limb successful the Government General Hospital (GGH), successful Vijayawada, connected Thursday (May 14, 2026). The incidental created panic among the patients successful the hospital.
According to sources, doctors removed the infected limb of a idiosyncratic successful the infirmary and kept it successful a integrative container for dumping it successful biomedical waste. The Class-IV unit kept the limb connected the archetypal floor. In the meantime, a thoroughfare canine picked up the integrative container (in which the amputated limb was kept) and ran away.
Patients, attendants and the nationalist who noticed the dogs eating the limb alerted the infirmary staff. They chased distant the dogs and brought the half-eaten limb backmost to the hospital. Patients allege that stray dogs were freely moving connected the infirmary premises creating panic among the public.
NTR territory Collector G. Lakshmisha has ordered an enquiry into the incident, and directed the infirmary authorities to instrumentality enactment against the negligent staff. Patients explicit interest implicit the negligence of the infirmary unit successful shifting the biomedical waste.
“An enquiry has been ordered connected however the thoroughfare dogs came up to the archetypal level and picked up the bag. Instructions person been fixed to the GGH officers to put CCTVs astatine the rooms wherever the biomedical discarded was stored,” the Collector told The Hindu connected Friday (May 15, 2026).
