Niloufer Hospital faces protest over alleged irregularities

The campus of the State-run Niloufer Hospital on Monday witnessed some tense moments, with activists from the Progressive Youth League (PYL) and the Progressive Organisation of Women (POW) staging a major protest, demanding immediate intervention by health authorities to clean up alleged corruption and severe infrastructural decay at the premier facility.

Armed with findings from a three-day survey, the agitating leaders marched to the administration block and cornered hospital authorities, ultimately



serving a comprehensive memorandum to Superintendent Dr Vijay Kumar after prior attempts to secure an audience were stonewalled.

In the survey report, the PYL and POW members highlighted the tough conditions faced by underprivileged patients and their attendants at Niloufer Hospital.

Expectant mothers are routinely subjected to inhuman conditions, forced to sit in plastic chairs for hours or cram two or three into a single bed due to an acute shortage of accommodation, the survey said.