mangaluru did state health department carry out surgical strike on the district health authorities it seems so if varying accounts on the probe that the state government had ordered on first neuro hospital supervised isolation centre located in padil are anything to go by while the district administration on friday maintained that the team is yet to come the authority that constituted the team said the report has been submitted the government has ordered the probe with regard to the identification of p0 at this cluster outbreakthe health department had directed dr s sacchidanand vicechancellor of bengalurubased rajiv gandhi university of health sciences rguhs to set up a team to probe the turn of events at the hospital the twomember team set up by dr sacchidanand visited the hospital and submitted its report to the government the team comprised two doctors from a local medical college dr sacchidanand told stoinot going into the contents of the report or the committees brief dr sacchidanand said that he had merely followed the directions given by the government it is for the government to comment and act on the report he said the teams visit was also not known to local elected representatives including mangaluru city north mla y bharath shetty the legislator said he only knew about the team being asked to probe the hospitaldistrict health and family welfare officer dr ramachandra bairy told stoi that he came to know about the rguhs probe team through a whatsapp forward on may 12 the day the health authorities were busy with handling the first flight under vande bharat mission at mangaluru international airport i have no knowledge about their visit or their report he said adding they would have presented all details that they had collected as part of their own probe had the team sought them dc sindhu b rupesh who confirmed the probe by a team under rguhs at a press briefing on friday said the administration was not kept in the loop about the teams visit nor was it aware about the team submitting the report to the government in its interim report a sixmember expert committee led by dr bairy had sought time to examine reports of patients from kerala who had undergone treatment there we have sent a request letter to the health department to seek concurrence of their counterparts in kerala once that is approved the committee will work its way towards identifying p0 as far as first neuro hospital is concerned he added