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Recently, many have lost their valuables either inside hospitals or in their vicinity, writes L. Srikrishna Many might have noticed the “do not park vehicles in front of this gate” signs all over the city. Of late, boards cautioning public not to park their two-wheelers/four-wheelers in select places are visible in the Temple City. It reads: “bike lifters roaming in this locality, guard your vehicles.” Police investigating criminal cases say that recent complaints from the Madurai public suggest that a majority of them has lost their valuables either inside hospitals or in their vicinity. A few others have reported of property missing at shopping malls and cinema houses. Every day, around 10,000 people from far and near visit the Government Rajaji Hospital as out-patients. According to Dean (in-charge) S. M. Sivakumar, they have directed all the hospital staffers to wear their photo identity cards. This would not only help officials and duty doctors to identify the staff members but also find out outsiders easily. On their part, the police conducted random checks at regular intervals on the entire premises which facilitated in identifying loiterers. Similarly, in other major hospitals in the city, including Apollo Speciality, Meenakshi Mission and Vadamalayan too a large number of public come as patients, attenders, para-medical staff and consultants. “To ensure patients’ safety and maintain peace, we have fixed timings for visitors calling on inpatients, and restrictions on the number of persons staying with the patients,” said Apollo Speciality Hospitals Chief Operating Officer and Director (Medical Services) Rohini Sridhar. “We’ve planned to install CCTVs at select points such as the pharmacy and a few OP departments frequented by more number of people. The hospital provides locker facility for inpatients. For parking vehicles, there is an exclusive area, guarded round-the-clock by security personnel,” she said. G. Balamurugan, Quality Service Manager, Meenakshi Mission Hospital, said that daily around 2,000 to 2,500 persons visited the 500-bedded hospital. Quoting a few instances where the hospital staffers handed over left-behind articles back to the patients, he said that such staff members were felicitated at the annual function by the hospital chairman. On many occasions, patients left their mobile phones and gold chains in the toilets or at the pharmacy. Any staffer who spots it hands it over to the Quality Service Department. “After due verification, we return the misplaced valuables to the rightful owners,” he said.
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