Tag: Sum Hospital Fire Mishap

Bhubaneswar: The State government has not presented the probe reports of various sensitive issues starting from the Gumudumaha police firing to SUM Hospital fire mishap, revealed a written reply of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik to a query of BJP MLA Dilip Ray in the Odisha Assembly today. The State government has constituted 12 Commissions of […]

Cuttack/Bhubaneswar: After around one and half month of occurrence of the SUM Hospital fire mishap which took 31 lives, the State government has decided to form an expert group to examine the buildings of hospitals including the privately-run ones and safety measures taken by hospital authorities to prepare a technical guideline. Informing newsmen about the […]

Bhubaneswar: The Revenue Divisional Commissioner (RDC) Central Division will record the statements of witnesses of the Sum Hospital fire Mishap from today. Besides common people, the RDC will record the statements of doctors who conducted autopsy of the people died in the mishap, DMET authorities, hospital officials and the CDMO would appear before the Commissioner […]

Bhubaneswar: The Commissionerate police has quizzed Saswati Das and Arati Nayak, trustees of the Siksha O Anusandhan (SOA) Charitable Trust in connection with the SUM Hospital fire mishap that had occurred on October 17. The Trust runs Institute of Medical Sciences and SUM Hospital. Sources said, on Sunday night the Khandagiri police went to the […]

Bhubaneswar: The Khurda ADJ-2 court is likely to pronounce its verdict on a bail application filed by SUM Hospital owner Manoj Nayak today, who is currently lodged at the Jharpada jail here in connection with the SUM Hospital Fire Mishap case. The court yesterday reserved its order on Nayak’s bail application after hearing arguments from […]

Bhubaneswar: In yet another example of undue government favour shown towards SUM Hospital, OTV has found out that the building in which the hospital was operating had no environmental clearance. In October 2013, a letter in this regard was sent by the director of the Forest and Environment department to the Khurda collector demanding action […]

Bhubaneswar: The hearing on the bail plea of SUM Hospital owner Manoj Nayak concluded today. However, the verdict was reserved by the additional district and sessions judge. Moreover, the hearing also concluded on the bail plea of capital hospital superintendent Pusparaj Samantsinghar. Also Read: SUM Hospital tragedy: Audit team set up to inspect hospitals Currently, […]

Bhubaneswar: The Khordha SDJM court today postponed the hearing of the bail petition filed by SUM hospital owner Manoj Nayak to October 27. The court postponed the bail plea hearing as police failed to furnish the case diary before it. Natak will stay at the Jharpada jail till the next hearing. On the other hand, […]

Mahakalapada: A day after resigning from the Health minister post on moral grounds following the SUM Hospital fire mishap, Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak today reached his Assembly constituency, Mahakalapada, and joined a motorcycle rally and public meeting as part of a show of strength. Nayak along with supporters started the motorcycle rally from Canal Bridge here […]

Bhubaneswar: Newly appointed Health minister Pradip Amat today said action will be taken against the SUM Hospital as per the law of the land. Talking to media persons, Amat said, “Appropriate action will be taken against the persons responsible for the fire mishap.” He added, “As I have been handling the responsibilities given to me […]

Bhubaneswar: The death toll in the SUM Hospital fire mishap went up to 26 with the death of one more patient this morning. The deceased has been identified as Kartikeswar Das, a resident of GGP Colony in Rasulgarh area in Bhubaneswar, who was shifted to Apollo Hospital after a major fire broke out in SUM […]

Bhubaneswar: The Commissionerate police was today allowed by the Bhubaneswar Sub Divisional Judicial Magistarte (SDJM) Court to take SUM Hospital owner Manoj Nayak on a two-day remand. Nayak will be taken to the police remand from tomorrow. While rejecting the bail plea of Nayak, the SDJM court sent the SUM Hospital owner to the judicial […]

Bhubaneswar: The State unit of BJP today launched a protest rally at Master Canteen Square in the city here demanding resignation of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik from his post and dismissal of Health Minister Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak from the Council of Ministers holding them responsible for the Sum Hospital fire mishap on Monday. Talking to […]

By Sandeep Sahu It is so easy to criticize the government. It can be blamed for anything and everything that goes wrong – from the rain gods playing truant to a bus falling off a bridge. That perhaps is the price of power. But there are times when one does wish not to be in […]