The Times of India          24.08.2013

Municipal chief visits SPG Hospital

VARANASI: To take stock of the health facilities being provided to the patients suffering from diarrhoea, dengue and other fatal diseases, municipal commissioner, RP Singh visited Shiv Prasad Gupta (SPG) Divisional Hospital on Friday.

He primarily visited the emergency and dengue wards to check the health facilities for patients and later went to the blood bank and pathology. He asked the concerned officials to procure proper number of dengue kit so that no hurdles come in way of the timely diagnosis of the disease. It may be noted here that the present sanitary condition of the region has increased the cases of diarrhoea, infectious diseases and several vector borne diseases.

While the sewage back flow and garbage collection are major problems faced by the city at present, floods related diseases have also shot up in the region now. Superintendent in chief, SPG Divisional Hospital, Dr VK Srivastava, chief medical officer, Dr MP Chaurasia and several others were also present on the occasion.