Security Lapse at CIVIC / Government establishments
Home Times Network
Mulundkars a much concerned about the security at all civic and government establishments.
Remember the brutal 26/11 terror attack at Cama Hospital in Mumbai? Or, the several assaults by relatives of patients on doctors at the civic hospitals? Well, all these are indications of lack of proper security at BMC-run hospitals!! Besides hospitals, even the civic offices do not have adequate security. The situation is no different in Mulund. In Mulund, too, both civil hospitals and offices do not have adequate security cover. As a result, the citizens’ life is at risk!
M.T.Agarwal Hospital’s security in danger
In Mulund, at MT Agarwal Hospital located at Devidayal Road in Mulund (W), the security is just for namesake and the life of patients visiting the hospital is at stake. Same is the situation at BMC T-Ward office in Mulund. Unfortunately, neither the hospital officials not the T-Ward office are taking the grave issue of security seriously. Hence, to awaken the authorities, Home Times conducted a reality check to verify the security of civic hospitals and offices in Mulund!
T-Ward, too, faces lax security
During its survey, shockingly, Home Times found total negligence of the security staff! A picture of such negligence can be gauged from the fact that when Home Times team made a round of T-Ward office, it was surprised to notice the security staff employed at the metal detector door at the entrance of T-Ward office doing their duty casually without much vigilance. To the team’s utter shock, it found many visitors entering into T-Ward office cunningly skipping metal detectors with the security staff turning a blind eye to their entry!!! With such poor safety and lethargic security staff, any anti-social element can easily access entry into Mulund’s T-Ward office and unleash terror!!
When Home Times quizzed the T-Ward security chief, he gave the standard reply, “We will take care in future and also ask the security guards to be more vigilant and alert.”
Like Mulund T-Ward office, the plight of Mulund’s biggest civil MT Agarwal Hospital is the same. There is no proper security surveillance on patients, doctors or visitors entering the hospital premises. Though the hospital boasts of a metal detector machine and security guards but, like T-Ward office, nobody is keen about the security measures.
Home Times, in its survey, observed the security guards either chatting with each other or busy talking over the mobile phones!!! Condemning the security cover at the hospital, a patient told Home Times, “The security at the hospital is very poor. Many times, the security guards on duty at the metal detector entrance are not there, hence any notorious element can easily enter the hospital.”
When Home Times team entered the hospital building the security guard neither stopped them to check their identity nor made any inquiry. Hence, the team reached the patients’ wards with ease. Home Times poses a vital question: If any anti-social element or a person with mala-fide intention seeks easy entry into the patient’s ward and harms a patient then who shall be held responsible for the attack???
When Home Times pointed the security threats to the hospital, then Barve, the security chief, told Home Times, “We will soon take action on the negligence aspect of the security in the hospital. In addition, we will serve notice to all the negligent guards and ask the reason for the lapse in security.”
The plight of Employees State Insurance Corporation’s (ESIC) hospital in Mulund is worst. A few days back, a mysterious unidentified dead body was recovered from the hospital premises exposing questions on the security of the hospital. Further, a week ago, the hospital was in the news for an outbreak of fire. Patients claim the hospital is too big and, as per the size of the hospital, the numbers of security guards are less.
The security has been beefed up at Mulund railway station after the bomb blast of 13th March 2003 in which 12 people were killed and 50 injured. Like metal detectors at others major stations, it is imperative that a metal detector should be installed even at Mulund station. Ditto malls and supermarkets.
