Oxygen supply stopped by sacked contract worker at Virudhunagar hospital
In a shocking incident, a contract worker of Virudhunagar Government Medical College Hospital stopped medical oxygen supply from the oxygen plant to the hospital in the early hours of Wednesday.
However, an alert employee restored the oxygen supply within minutes, thus saving the lives of patients put on oxygen support.
The contract worker, Saravanakumar, was angered over his contract company sacking him on May 19. He was working in the oxygen plan. He was arrested by Virudhunagar East Police based on a complaint lodged by Resident Medical Officer Ganesh.
When Saravanakumar came to the hospital around 2.45 a.m. on Wednesday, a security personnel asked him why had he come to the hospital after his removal from service. He reportedly told him that he wanted to visit an inpatient.
However, he did not get into any ward, but walked straight to the oxygen plant.
The security personnel, who followed him, saw him doing some mischief at the plant. When he questioned him, Saravanakumar did not answer him and left the scene in a huff.
When the hospital engineer was alerted, he found that the oxygen supply line valve was closed and immediately opened it. The nurses on duty reportedly found that oxygen supply was reduced for sometime and again went up.
Saravanakumar was booked for criminal trespass and under the provisions of the Tamil Nadu Medicare Service Persons and Medicare Service Institutions (Prevention of Violence and Damage or Loss to Property) Act - 2008.
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