‘Truth may not come out in inquiry by local officers’
Bharatiya Janata Party State official representative D. Venkateswara Reddy has demanded that the State government order a third-party inquiry into the death of patients at three government-run hospitals in Anantapur district in the wake of the notice given to the State Chief Secretary to submit an inquiry report on the three incidents of paucity of oxygen supply in which 22 persons died.
Mr. Venkateswara Reddy on Thursday said that no local officer should be involved in the probe ordered by the Andhra Pradesh High Court, as otherwise it would defeat the very purpose of the probe. “If the Oxygen Coordinators or any district official is asked to take up the probe, the truth is unlikely to come out,” he said and wanted a State-level officer or a team to probe the incidents in GGH, Anantapur, Government Hospital, Hindupur and Cancer Hospital, Anantapur.