The Amdavad Municipal Corporation (AMC) operated hospital Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Institute Of Medical Sciences and Research (SVP) has been embroiled in a controversy. According to the chief executive officer of SVP Hospital, a security inquiry on June 16 revealed that a student was allegedly taking drugs in the hospital.
While the CEO of SVP Hospital, Saurabh Patel claimed that they have intimated the incident to the Sola Civil Hospital dean, he said that no oral or written report was given to the GMERS (Gujarat Medical & Education Research Society).
As per Patel, the CEO of SVP Hospital, on June 16 around 11.30 am, the security staff of the hospital informed the hospital authorities that an intoxicating substance present in cough syrup, usually used for medicinal purposes, was injected by a medical student.
According to sources, the medical student was getting syringes and needles from the hospital’s surgical ward and using them to inject drugs for a week.
Sliding under the rug?
The head of the department at GMERS, Professor Prakash Mehta refuted the claims of receiving any such incident by written or oral means in SVP.
Another dean at the GMERS, Cherry Shah, refuted the media reports saying it’s “baseless” and “no such incident has taken place at SVP”.