Baripada: Sumeet Security Services, the agency engaged at Baripada district headquarters hospital (DHH) for cleaning and sanitation related works, has been debarred from the service.
Chief district medical and public health officer has intimated the agency about the termination of the contract through a letter.
According to a source, sanitation services were in a poor shape at Baripada DHH. After several rounds of agitation, the hospital authority and the chief district medical officer had issued a show-cause notice on Sumeet Security Services July 17, 2019. Thereafter no follow-up action was taken in this regard.
Odia daily ‘Dharitri’ had published a detailed report on the sorry state of affairs at the DHH this August.
Acting on the report, the agency was terminated from offering its services at the hospital, district programme manager of National Health Mission Anil Kumar Mohanty said. He further informed that the hospital authorities are contemplating to blacklist it.
With a view to providing better health services to the people living in remote pockets in tribal dominated Mayurbhanj district, the state government with the help of central assistance had founded a medical college at Rangamatia here. The DHH also had been upgraded to offer its services at par with medical colleges. Hundreds of patients from neighbouring districts and states such as Jharkhand and West Bengal visit this hospital on a daily basis.
Sumeet Security Services was awarded the job of carrying out sanitation related works at the DHH, PRM Medical College and Hospital, three sub-divisional hospitals at Rairangpur, Karanjia and Udala and 26 community health centres for three years.
Its services at Rairangpur, Karanjia and Udala sub-divisional hospitals are also not up to the mark. Sources said, it is all because the agency had been trying to get more out of fewer workers. This apart, the agency is alleged to have not been supplying uniforms, ID cards, face masks, gloves and gumboots to its workers.
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