Ajay Sharma
Sunderbani, June 17
Continuous “chain of attachments” has allegedly crippled local healthcare services at Sub District Hospital (SDH) Sunderbani due to Acute Shortage of staff, especially laboratory technicians.
Despite high-level directives ordering the immediate cancellation of all temporary attachments, highly placed sources revealed that senior medical staff continue to enjoy unauthorized postings, leaving junior staff to bear the brunt of the hospital’s heavy workload.
According to local whistleblowers and administrative sources, multiple laboratory personnel—including a Senior Laboratory Technician and a Head Laboratory Technician—have been drawing salaries from SDH Sunderbani for the last 5 to 6 years without actually performing their duties at the station.
“While junior technicians are left to manage the daily influx of patients, critical laboratory work frequently grinds to a halt due to the absence of experienced senior oversight,” said whistleblower, adding that this issue is further compounded by an apparent breakdown in administrative accountability.
They said, a few months ago, the newly appointed Director of Health Services took a hardline stance, issuing a blanket order to cancel all unapproved attachments across the department. However, ground realities suggest these orders are being actively flouted.
“The controversy has reached the highest levels of district administration,” said whistleblower, adding that the Deputy Commissioner confronted the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) regarding the existence of illegal staff attachments.
In response, the CMO categorically denied making or authorizing any such arrangements.
However, internal notices and local intelligence tell a starkly different story. Activists and investigative sources asserted that at least two senior laboratory technicians remain improperly attached through a web of bureaucratic collusion involving the CMO’s office and the Block Medical Officer (BMO) Sundarbani.
“They manipulate their own postings so that no one questions them later,” whistleblower revealed, adding, “They show up on paper just enough to keep the hospital running in the public eye, but the reality is they use these attachments to work entirely at their own whim while pocketing public salaries.”
Locals have demanded a rigorous, technology-driven inquiry to expose the scam.
Concerned authorities have been urged to initiate immediate punitive action, beginning with a three-pronged investigative approach, including formal audit of the mobile phone location data of the accused senior and head technicians to verify their actual physical presence over the years.
“The government can also thoroughly analyse security camera footage at Sub-District Hospital Sunderbani to cross-reference daily attendance sheets with physical reality,” suggested locals, adding that a direct inquiry targeting the BMO Sunderbani to clarify exactly where these attached employees have been rendering services, who authorized their attendance, and under what grounds their monthly salaries are being released.
