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Doctors? strike: No end in sight
HEALTH SERVICES at Sir Sunderlal Hospital in Banaras Hindu University continued to remain affected in view of the indefinite strike by resident doctors at the Institute of Medical Sciences on Thursday.
HEALTH SERVICES at Sir Sunderlal Hospital in Banaras Hindu University continued to remain affected in view of the indefinite strike by resident doctors at the Institute of Medical Sciences on Thursday.
There are no signs of the strike coming to an end soon, as the talks between BHU authorities and resident doctors ended in a deadlock on Wednesday night and Thursday morning.
The inflow of patients has also reduced to almost 50 per cent, as a large number of patients coming from various parts of eastern Uttar Pradesh, including Jaunpur, Ghazipur, Mau, Mirzapur, Sonebhadra, Chandauli and Ballia and some parts of Bihar, had to suffer enormous difficulties in view of the strike.
Critical patients were taken to private clinics and nursing homes in the nearby areas due to a large number of resident doctors boycotting work at Sir Sunderal Hospital.
Sources said senior doctors could perform only one or two minor operations today. Only around half-a-dozen patients were entertained at the emergency ward while the critical ones had to return.
Meanwhile, the indefinite strike by resident doctors entered its ninth day today while the hunger strike continued for the third consecutive day.
Dr Mahesh Kate, Dr Pankaj Goel, Dr Shiv and Dr Kamal, under the banner of the Resident Doctors’ Association, sat on the relay hunger strike here on Thursday.
The medical students have been demanding removal of head of the Department of General Medicine Dr NK Singh and also a check on the alleged corrupt practices at Sir Sunderlal Hospital.
Earlier, only resident doctors of the Department of General Medicine were on strike, but later resident doctors of other departments also joined the agitation and boycotted medical services.
Dr Vikram Singh, who is leading the agitation, said they would file a public interest litigation petition at the Supreme Court against the alleged corrupt practices at Sir Sunderlal Hospital in a couple of days.
The doctors called on BHU vice-chancellor Prof Panjab Singh on late Wednesday evening to keep him abreast about their demands. However, the meeting could not yield any results.
Institute of Medical Sciences director Prof Gajendra Singh also held a meeting with the agitating students on Thursday morning, but there was no outcome of this meeting as well.
“We will not call off our strike and want immediate disciplinary action against the corrupt officials, especially Dr NK Singh,” the doctors reiterated.
