MS inspects 'dry' ward, shabby toilets
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, November 30 2017: RIMS Medical Superintendent (MS) Prof Arun today inspected the hospital's male medicine ward where water is not available as well as the shabby toilets of the same ward .

Notably the MS inspected the toilets after The Sangai Express broke the story of how a diabetes patient at RIMS medicine ward had petitioned Governor Najma Heptulla over the filth and dirt of the toilets .

Prof Arun told The Sangai Express that outlet pipe of the toilet was found broken as well as blocked while the gas outlet pipe was found missing .

Moreover, cigarette buds and pan juices made the toilet quite shabby and repugnant .

Even though the filths have been removed today, it would take at least three days to fix necessary outlet pipe and gas outlet pipe.

Nonetheless, the toilet care-taker has been instructed to keep the toilet neat and clean, Prof Arun conveyed .

Confiding that RIMS is now facing a problem of inadequate water supply, the MS informed that altogether 15 light vehicles equipped with water tanks of 600 litres each and eight tanker trucks have been supplying water to the hospital between 6 am and 5 pm everyday but the quantity of water supplied by them can no longer meet the daily requirement .

There is a plan to construct a separate water supply plant for RIMS and a DPR has been already prepared .

Due process has also been initiated to obtain administrative approval.

Once this water supply plant is constructed, the problem of water inadequacy can be addressed to a great extent, Prof Arun said.

There were some irregularities in the power supply as the power line was damaged while felling dried trees that grew inside RIMS campus.

The situation will improve considerably in the next couple of days, he added.

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