Cuttack, May 27: The SCB Medical College and Hospital administration has failed to take measures recommended by the Cuttack-Bhubaneswar police to strengthen security on the campus.

Nearly four months after deputy commissioner of police (DCP), Cuttack, recommended that the security at SCB be upgraded with the installation of CCTV cameras and issue of identity cards to staff, officials in the hospital administration admitted that nothing had been done yet.

Any random person can enter the hospital now.

DCP Praveen Kumar had conducted a review of the situation in the last week of January and “emphasised the need to ensure security to women attendants of patients, women staff, and female students of medicine, nursing and other courses”.

Kumar had urged the hospital authorities to take steps to prevent free access of outsiders to the ladies hostel and nursing hostel and use CCTV cameras at the entrances for better monitoring.

SCB authorities were asked “to issue identity cards to all personnel who are employed in various departments of the hospital, college and other ancillary units”, official records say.

“The identity card will be issued after due verification of character and antecedents by the police station. All agencies appointed on contract basis and its personnel should provide details of their names and other particulars to the police station along with photographs for conducting the verification of character and antecedents,” the DCP had said.

“Since the measures recommended to strengthen the existing security system entail a sizable expenditure, the proposal for it needs approval of the Swastha Bikash Samiti, the monitoring body for SCB hospital,” a senior hospital official said on the condition of anonymity.

“There has been no progress as far as installation of CCTV cameras and the issue of identity cards due to serious bottlenecks in the hospital administration,” Pravat Ranjan Dash, a member of high court-constituted health care committee, said.

Das, who is also amicus curiae of the high court, had last week submitted a memorandum on the matter to the revenue divisional commissioner (central zone), who heads the Swastha Bikash Samiti.

Official sources said the DCP had urged the SCB authorities to install Pan-Tilt-Zoom cameras on both main entrances — front gate on the Manglabag side and rear gate on the Ranihat side.