On Thursday, the staff of the fire and rescue services, which broadcasts the body of D. Binda of Rubbles from the unpacked building in the Government Medical College Hospital in Kottayam. | PHOTO CREDIT: VISHNU PRATHAP
With the collapse of a building at the Faculty of Medicine at Kottayam Hospital, which increased focused on the structural security of public hospital buildings, some of which are quite ancient, with the health department decided to initiate security audit measures in all government hospitals throughout the state.
The director of the healthcare service, who convened a meeting on Friday, ordered officials to perform strict security checks to determine the structural safety of hospital buildings.
Reena KJ has ordered that details of hospital buildings in all 14 districts are collected and that a message will be presented on Saturday. She asked district medical officers (DMO) to ensure that there were no people or patients or their partners in any of the unused/empty hospital buildings. The report will be handed over to the government later.
Cm is certainty
Meanwhile, in his first public statement after the tragedy, Chief Minister Pinaraya Vijayan assured people that the government would take all the necessary measures to ensure that unfortunate and tragic events, as happened in Kottayam, are not.
The government will provide D. Binda with a suitable and reasonable compensation and that it will offer all support to the family. The government will transfer its efforts to strengthen public health sector with renewed vitality.
Hospital Security Plan
Meanwhile, even though the opposition has released a storm, while Minister of Health Veen George responsible for alleged neglect led to the collapse of the building, she pointed out that he had barely met a month ago that the health department and the State Office for the administration of the disaster (SDMA) to create the hospital’s security plan.
Mrs. George said that the session was taken to create a security plan to ensure the safety of all public sector healthcare institutions in Kerale-numbering around 1,280-A prevent accidents and alleviate the impact of any possible disaster. The instructions and framework required for the plan have already been prepared at seminars led by experts. The funds for educational programs were assigned at the meeting Chairman of the Secretary of 26 June.
The process of bringing the plan into action is also increasing. We hope that all public health institutions in the state will be prepared by their individual safety plans of the hospital by August. This plan will help all public sector hospitals identify the main risks of disasters against which they could be against, categorize them and develop appropriate solutions
All safety problems in hospitals that require immediate intervention will participate in the local level, while greater problems requiring a wide action plan will be solved using the relevant local self -governing institutions. However, for greater safety problems in hospitals that may pose a serious risk of disaster, a detailed proposal will be prepared and presented to the State Fund for Melite of the Disaster for appropriate allocation.
Mrs. George said that in the last few months, the medical audits of the health department and fire audits were for the first time in all public hospitals. Security audits and false fire exercises with the help of police and fire brigades were also organized in hospitals.
Special instructions for the safety of the hospital in the State and Kerala were the first state in the country to conduct a Gray Protocol code (a protocol that warns the hospital employees of the presence of dangerous or combat persons in the hospital or crime somewhere in the hospital).
Published – 4 July 2025 20:55
