As many as 16 CCTV cameras were commissioned at District Headquarters hospital here on Friday under ‘Third Eye Project’, a public-private partnership venture of the Sripuram Trust formed of textile industry stakeholders and the city police.
“The installation of these cameras will strengthen the e-surveillance in the hospital as the existing 12 cameras installed using government funds are not sufficient for comprehensive monitoring of the hospital premises which holds nearly 500 beds,” Joint Director of Medical and Rural Health Services M. Vijayakumar said.
The capital expenditure of Rs. 3 lakh incurred for the deployment of the new cameras and the monitoring system was borne by the textile-sector industrialists who were part of Sripuram Trust.
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City Police Commissioner Sanjay Mathur inaugurated the functioning of the newly installed cameras in the presence of Tirupur Exporters Association president Raja M. Shanmugam, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime) Disha Mittal and health officials.
Health officials were of the opinion that the strengthening of e-surveillance would act as a deterrent to people involved in crimes such as vehicle thefts and illegal lifting of new born babies, which had happened on many occasions in the recent years.