The high-decibel performance was held outside the hospital’s super specialty heartcare unit and advanced diagnostics facility
Sant Tukaramnagar resident Chetan Chavan said the incident was concerning as it occurred near the cardiac care unit. “Most patients here are in a serious condition,” he said. Activist Prashant Raul termed the incident “insensitive” and “intolerable”. He said, “It does not require a rule to understand that there should not be any loud noise around hospitals.”
The high-decibel performance — part of a bhajan programme organised by the hospital’s employees celebrating Ganeshotsav — was held outside the super specialty heartcare unit and advanced diagnostics facility. The campus houses a police chowkey. Pune: A video of dhol-tasha performance on Tuesday on Yashwantrao Chavan Memorial Hospital (YCMH) premises, a designated silence zone and one of the busiest public hospitals in the region, triggered outrage and prompted the civic body and police to initiate action against those responsible.
“They were booked under relevant BNS sections, including those pertaining to public nuisance, and Noise Pollution (Regulation and Control) Rules, 2000, provisions,” Suhas Avhad, senior police inspector of Sant Tukaramnagar police, said. “On noticing the event, the hospital dean immediately stopped it. Notices have been issued to the concerned. Sant Tukaramnagar police have registered a case against six people — five staffers of YCMH and the brass band owner — over the use of dhol-tasha on the hospital’s premises.
I have spoken to members of the municipal employees’ association and told them that such celebrations will not be permitted not only in hospitals, but at any facility run by the civic body,” Pimpri Chinchwad municipal commissioner Vijay Suryawanshi told TOI on Wednesday.