CUTTACK: The Orissa High Court on Wednesday expressed displeasure over the inaction of the Government in taking appropriate steps to improve the infrastructure and manpower in the medical college and hospitals despite repeated directions. The Special Bench of Justices BP Das and I Mohanty directed personal appearance of the Health Secretary, DMET, the Works Secretary and executive engineers of the PWD, PHD, GED and R&B on September 19. The Court took cognizance of the report filed by the Advocates Committee on the conditions of the Haematology department and other super-speciality departments like Gastroenterology, Nephrology, Endocrinology, etc. The Committee in its report had indicated serious lapses in infrastructure like acute shortage of beds and doctors strength in the Clinical Haematology department along with others. An intervention petition on the lapses was also filed by advocate Deepak Das and allowed by the bench. The bench also expressed dissatisfaction over the affidavit filed by the State Health Secretary on compliance to the report on the conditions in the three medical college and hospitals of the State. Amicus curiae and Committee member PR Das said no action had also been taken on the earlier directions persuant to the petition filed by lawyer Tarananda Patnaik on the functioning of the Regional Spinal Injuries Centre at SCB Medical College and Hospital here.
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