Upset over the sorry state of affairs at the district hospital in Haveri, where patients in the children and maternity wards were being treated under a leaking ceiling, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah directed senior officials to suspend an Assistant Executive Engineer of Health Department on July 25.
The Chief Minister arrived in Haveri on July 25 for a review meeting, along with his cabinet colleagues. He visited the district hospital in the wake of reports about the sorry state of affairs in the government-run health facility.
On seeing leaking ceilings and walls in the children’s ward, maternity ward and emergency care ward, the Chief Minister made no attempt to hide his displeasure. Without mincing words, he sought to know from the district surgeon and the engineer, why they permitted work to be taken up without making alternate arrangements for patients. “Don’t you have humanity? Are you here for grazing donkeys? Don’t you get salaries,” he asked angrily.
