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The Hindu
The Hindu
National
Staff Reporter

Rodents chew patient in ICU Hospital superintendent transferred

In a shocking incident, rodents chewed a patient in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Mahatma Gandhi Memorial (MGM) Hospital, Warangal. Following the incident Superintendent of the government hospital Dr B Srinivas Rao has been transferred from the post. Services of two doctors who were ‘negligent in duties’ were terminated, the orders of which were issued on Thursday.

Patient K Srinivas (38) was on mechanical ventilator support in the ICU and was unconscious. He was admitted there on March 26.

Family members were horrified to see blood dripping from the patient and forming a pool on the bed and floor. They lodged a complaint with Dr Srinivasa Rao on Thursday.

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