This story is from September 19, 2016

Spat between doctor, DMC truck driver leads to garbage pile-up at Doon hospital

Dehradun: Exposing the patients to a range of health hazards, the municipal corporation has not collected solid waste from the Doon Medical College Hospital in the past four days. According to the sources, it all started after a DMC garbage truck hit the car of a doctor a week ago
Spat between doctor, DMC truck driver leads to garbage pile-up at Doon hospital
Dehradun: Exposing the patients to a range of health hazards, the municipal corporation has not collected solid waste from the Doon Medical College Hospital in the past four days. According to the sources, it all started after a DMC garbage truck hit the car of a doctor a week ago.
Alleging that a similar incident took place earlier also, the doctor approached the police and filed a complaint against the truck driver.

The doctor also sought compensation for the damages caused to his car.
Apparently reacting to the police complaint, the driver stopped picking up the waste from the hospital.
The corporation also did not make any arrangement to lift the garbage.
The corporation officials claimed that the garbage was not picked up due to delay in payments by the hospital.
However, the hospital said that the DMC never pointed out the payment issue in the last six months.
Initially, the hospital authorities were keeping the garbage inside a biomedical waste room. But, after the room got filled, the authorities were forced to keep the garbage outside.

When contacted, medical superintendent of the hospital, Dr. KK Tamta said: “We informed the corporation’s health officer about three-four days ago about the matter. However, no one was sent to lift the garbage. Today, the commissioner of the corporation told me that dues of the past six months were not cleared by the hospital. However, the corporation never sent the bills to the hospital. Once we get the bills, they will be sent for clearance immediately.”
Meanwhile, mayor Vinod Chamoli directed the officials to ensure that the garbage is collected.
“I came to know about this issue on Monday in the review meeting. I have told the CMO and MS of the hospital to take such issues seriously because they are related to public health. In such a situation, they should contact me directly.”
Meanwhile, TOI sources also told that a machine, which detects dengue, has stopped working on Sunday.
However, the medical superintendent denied it.
The total count of the dengue patients on Monday shot up to 947 in Uttarakhand. Out of that, 842 patients were from Dehradun alone.
On Monday, one dengue case was reported from Pauri, the first in the district.
Patients count in Hardiwar and Nianital was 59 and 45 respectively.
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