PATIALA – Big rats have become a common sighting in Government Rajindra Hospital in the royal city. They are freely moving around throughout the campus including the OPD, ENT Department, Operation Theatre and the labour room.
“If the rats bite a patient, who has been administered anesthesia, or some newborn child, they can die. This problem of many rats in the hospital can easily lead to an outbreak of plague,” said a doctor.
Medical Superintendent Dr VK Sharda said, the staff had sprayed rodenticide in the OPDs but could not spray it in the operation theatres.
