Your paper reported that patients had to use soiled linen
TEAM HERALD
PANJIM: Goa State Human Rights Commission has asked the Director of Health Services and superintendent of the district hospital at Mapusa to submit a detailed report as to why there is no laundry at the hospital, by July 2.
The three bench commission headed by Justice P K Mishra issued notices to them on Monday after taking suo motu cognizance of a Herald report that patients are forced to use soiled linen of other patients.
Herald, in its Monday edition had reported that the hospital authorities are forced to send soiled linen and patients’ clothes to GMC for washing, since they do not have an in-house laundry service. While they await clean linen, patients have to wear soiled clothes of other patients and similarly used soiled bed sheet.
