Moved by a mid-day report on the appalling conditions of a hostel building for resident doctors of JJ hospital, the State Human Rights Commission has summoned the hospital’s dean, the Public Works Department and state health officials to seek their response. Sources said SHRC authorities visited the hostel and were stunned to find chunks of concrete fallen off the walls, leaky ceilings and broken tiles across the hostel that houses about 500 resident doctors.

The authorities have been asked to appear in courtroom no. 1 before the division bench of Justice KK Tated, SHRC chairperson, and member MA Sayeed at 11 am on October 19.