Summary:
Bareilly: As not a single doctor from the district hospital has visited Bareilly district jail for six months, jail officials have recently sent a request to chief medical officer (CMO) to send experts here on a fortnightly basis, according to the rules. There are 2,503 inmates, including 180 women, at the district jail. I have directed them to send a gynaecologist regularly to the district jail. Due to poor doctor-patient ratio, the jail will be rife with communicable diseases, said jail officials.However, after the CMO asked the chief medical superintendent (CMS) of the district hospital to send doctors to the jail, the latter refused, citing shortage of doctors. Besides, other specialists from the district hospital will start visiting from this month..