On Thursday, an employee found a dead lizard in idli in a canteen at the Government General Hospital (GGH),Guntur after which the Municipal health officials booked a case against the management of the canteen.

The incident happened when a staff nurse D V Ramana who was on duty in the morning shift sent her colleague Lakshmi to get idli for herself from the canteen which resulted as a reason for her horror when she found a 5-inch dead lizard when she opened the parcel.

Lakshmi started vomiting seeing the lizard and immediately approached hospital superintendent Challa Mohan Rao and brought to his notice the state of affairs in the canteen who said that the management of canteen had, in fact, been warned by the local RDO a few months ago when he found unhygienic conditions during his inspections.

It's not only a life threat for the patients who come here to get treated, but equally for their families.

(AW:Samrat Biswas)