Govt. doctors running pvt. nursing homes suspended

By Our Staff Reporter

NIZAMABAD, OCT. 13. The Director-General of Medical Services, Dr. Anji Reddy, on Saturday swooped on two private nursing homes run by Government doctors in Nizamabad town and placed under suspension two doctors - Dr. Narsing Rao and Dr. Ramulu.

Dr. Anji Reddy who had come here to attend the 24th annual Conference of the Association of Surgeons of India, A.P. Chapter, decided to conduct raid on select nursing homes reportedly run by the Government doctors against the Government directive. Dr. Anji Reddy, without informing any official, rushed to the nursing home of Dr. Narsing Rao and inspected it.

He summoned the doctor and questioned as to how he was running a nursing home instead of a clinic. Failing to elicit a satisfactory response, the Director-General seized prescription letter pads and other material. He repeated the exercise at the other nursing home run by Dr. Ramulu. Dr. Anji Reddy was learnt to have taken letters from the doctors that they were running nursing homes instead of clinic.

Even the Superintendent of the district headquarters hospital, Dr. D.L.N. Swamy, and the District Medical and Health Officer, Dr. Surender Reddy, had any inkling of the surprise check. Sources said the two senior officials met the Director-General but were asked to go to their offices. Dr. Anji Reddy met the Superintendent of police, Dr. Ravi Shankar Ayyanar, before he embarked on the check, sources pointed out. Representatives of the electronic media were summoned by officials before the surprise check was undertaken.

The raids caused panic among some Government doctors, who have private practice. Anticipating the visit of the Director-General, doctors at the district headquarters hospital were in preparedness but the visit never happened.

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