Collector Satya Prasad surrenders Jagtial hospital superintendent to DME

Collector B Satya Prasad on Thursday issued orders surrendering Jagtial Government General Hospital Superintendent Dr L Ramulu to the Director of Medical Education on charges of neglecting duties.

Jagtial: Collector B Satya Prasad on Thursday issued orders surrendering Jagtial Government General Hospital Superintendent Dr L Ramulu to the Director of Medical Education on charges of neglecting duties.

The Collector, in the orders, mentioned that the Superintendent had attended only three Zilla Parishad general body meetings as against nine meetings held in his tenure. On October 28, the Additional Collector (Local Bodies) had given instructions to the Superintendent to prepare a comparative statement for final approval to purchase drugs and medicines. However, the Superintendent did not process the file.

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Ramulu had also taken approval from higher officials for a diet contract only two months after lapse of the old contract.When the news regarding the usage of expired medicine being given in the Maternal and Child Health Centre circulated on social media on November 12, the Superintendent was not in duty and the same was answered by the subordinates that he was on leave but no leave was sanctioned by the department HOD or the District Collector, he added.