7 Put on Notice for Playing Holi in ICU of Cuttack Hospital

THE SCB medical college and hospital management has disengaged three outsourcing employees and issued show cause notice to seven nursing staff for celebrating Holi inside the trauma ICU of the premier healthcare centre on Saturday.

- EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE @ Cuttack

The on-duty staff reportedly created commotion and even played with colours right inside the critical care unit despite the fact that over 15 critical accident victims were undergoing treatment at the ICU. Some of them were also on ventilator support.

The incident had triggered discontentment among the patients' attendants but they had chosen to stay silent apprehending hampering the health-care services. Later, some of them took to X to apprise the matter to Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi and Health minister Mukesh Mahaling, demanding a high-level probe into the matter and appropriate action against the errant staff.