Days after a controversy triggered regarding the alleged conduct of Onam ‘sadya’ (feast) in an operation theatre at the government Medical College Hospital in the city, a nurse has been transferred and a doctor slapped with a <g data-gr-id="14">showcause</g> notice.
The action had been taken pursuant to a probe ordered by state Health Minister VS Sivakumar into the incident. It triggered a <g data-gr-id="16">controversy,</g> after TV channels aired purported footage of the Onam festivities at the operation theatre of the cardiology department at the hospital last week.
An order has been issued for transferring the head nurse, who was in charge of the theatre, and a show-cause notice issued to the head of the Anesthesia Department on the probe, a health department release said.