According to officials, the incident in the psychiatric ward of Jabalpur’s Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Medical College Hospital, where two patients and the service were bitten by rats. Representative image. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/Istockphoto
Three people, including two patients, were reportedly bitten by rats at the Faculty of Medicine in Jabalpur Madhya Pradesh, just two weeks after two infants died after rats in the state hospital in Indore.
According to officials, the incident in the Jabalpur’s Psychiatric Department of Netjaji Subhash Chandra Bose Medical College Hospital, where two patients and service were on Monday (September 15, 2025) on Monday (September 15, 2025) on Monday (September 15, 2025) on Monday.
Jabalpur collector Raghvendra Singh told Hindu that the district administration issued a notice to hospital authorities and was looking for an incident report within three days.
“The report will also be sent to higher authorities and any measures will be initiated on the basis of the findings,” Singh said.
This comes at a time when the state government is already facing serious criticism and control before hygienic concerns in public health facilities since the Indore incident, where the rats bit two newborn girls and gnawed four fingers of one of them.
Previously, the government submitted a report on status and denied that death was caused by the bite of rats, at the Madya Pradesh High Court, who took the matter of Moto Suo. The government and the hospital administration claimed that the children had died of their existing illnesses and anomalies of the authorities and took the department against more doctors and nursing staff.
Mr. Singh said the hospital administration created a three -member panel and a private company was also issued a notice that is responsible for the control of pests and rodents. The panel is led by a hospital superintendent.
“During the inspection, the Hospital Administration has found the arrangement of rodents’ inspection, but a notification of a private company and some guards was still issued,” he said.
Dr. Zavneet Saxen, Dean of Jabalpur Medical College, said two released patients and one of their participants complained of rats bite.
“I searched for a detailed message from the Superintendent of what steps were taken. And against anyone, including outsourced agencies that are found responsible for this,” he said.
Another hospital physician requiring anonymity, because he was not entitled to talk about this matter, said some patients complained about rats over the weekend, but “the inner probe found that some employees and doctors did not pay attention to them”.
Jagdish Nezra, who brought his mother to treatment from Gotegaon in the Narsinghpur district, said the rats bit him and his mother on Monday night (September 15, 2025) and Tuesday (September 16, 2025).
“I slept on the floor beside my mother’s bed when the rat bit me around 3 o’clock in the morning, he also bit my mother,” he told reporters.
The psychiatric department currently runs a temporary building due to reconstruction work in the hospital.
Published – 17 September 2025 01:50
