Rats were spotted roaming a hospital ward as patients lay helpless in their beds.
An onlooker filmed the rodents in the orthopaedics ward.
They darted up and down oxygen pipelines and near hospital beds.
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It happened on Wednesday (14 Jan) in a government medical college in Gonda, Uttar Pradesh, India, as reported by Need To Know.
District Magistrate Priyanka Niranjan slammed the college principal, Professor Dhananjay Shrikant Kotastane, and ordered immediate pest control measures.
Hospital staff have since sprayed pesticides in the orthopaedics unit and other wards.
Professor Kotastane said food brought in by patients’ families was attracting the rodents.
He confirmed that an inquiry has been launched to establish responsibility.
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