In Madhya Pradesh, in a first of its kind of initiative, `pink alarms’ have been installed at the government-run district hospital and medical college in Datia. The issue of safety of women staff at public hospitals came to the fore recently after the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata.

The pink alarm system is a brainchild of district collector Sandeep Makin. The pressing of an alarm will set off a siren and within five minutes the security personnel will reach the person in trouble. Civil surgeon and hospital superintendent Dr K C Rathore informed that the pink alarms were installed in the staff duty room on all the three floors of the Maternity Ward, Trauma Center and the New OPD Block. Officials informed that this is the first government hospital in the state where this facility has been provided for women security.