HC directs authorities to inspect and file report on sanitation, security, basic facilities at MGMGH

The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Tuesday directed the Tiruchi Corporation Commissioner and the Dean of the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Government Hospital, Tiruchi, to inspect the hospital and file a report on sanitation, security and basic facilities at the hospital.

A Division Bench of Justices C.V. Karthikeyan and R. Sakthivel was hearing a public interest litigation petition filed by S. Jayashree of Thottiyam taluk in Tiruchi district. The petitioner pointed to the recent incident at the hospital in which an elderly woman undergoing postoperative care in the general ward following orthopaedic surgery at the hospital suffered a toe injury after being reportedly bitten by a rat.