John Wilbert & Rabindranath Biswas
Port Blair, Nov 06: The G B Pant Hospital is claimed to be the one referral hospital of Andaman and Nicobar Islands and the centre level of Andaman’s Health Department, however it’s shocking to notice that many of the CCTV cameras put in within the premier establishment will not be working. Some sources from the Hospital mentioned that the cameras had not been functioning “for a long time” and that petty thefts and folks misbehaving with workers have elevated through the years. The CCTVs had been put in on the campus about eleven years in the past throughout the 12 months 2013.
“However, many cameras became defunct within months of the installation,” mentioned a supply.
Taking full benefit of this case, some miscreants are committing theft within the campus by principally focusing on attendants and escaping with their cell phones and different belongings, as disclosed by the hospital staffs.
Over the final couple of years, there have been a number of complaints from attendants that they misplaced their cell phones, necessary paperwork and different private belongings from the hospital campus. The victims registered complaints of those instances at Aberdeen Police Station however due to non-functional CCTV, the police have every time confronted issues because the defunct CCTV captured no footage and because of this investigation and lots of instances had been delayed.
After a police grievance and through investigation it was learnt that many of the CCTV Cameras will not be working in G B Pant Hospital. In this case the police couldn’t arrest the suspect simply because there was no correct CCTV footage to ascertain the theft by the suspect. This is a matter of great concern that the GB Pant Hospital the place,the federal government is spending large quantities of cash yearly, CCTV cameras will not be maintained professionally, most of the people regretted.
When contacted, the Medical Superintendent Dr. Uday Sankar, mentioned: “We are aware about the matter, we have 95 Cameras in GB Pant Hospital Campus and many of them are non-functional and we repaired them, but later these CCTV cameras again developed snag after few days, were left non-functional. After a thorough survey, it was proven these cameras are unserviceable.”
The MS additional mentioned that he has moved a file to APWD for an estimate for set up of the CCTV cameras and as soon as the estimate will get the required approval from the Administration, inside one month new CCTV set up work might be began.
