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Jr docs? indefinite strike from Sunday
Agitated over the month-long water crisis at the PG Hostel in Swaroop Rani Nehru Hospital, the junior doctors have decided to go on an indefinite strike from Sunday.
Agitated over the month-long water crisis at the PG Hostel in Swaroop Rani Nehru Hospital, the junior doctors have decided to go on an indefinite strike from Sunday.
The junior doctors also gave a 48-hour strike notice to the MLN Medical College principal on Thursday evening. The junior doctors association (JDA) will also organise sit-ins and massive demonstrations to protest against the pathetic condition of mess and toilets in the 100-room PG Hostel.
The JDA will paralyse all the emergency services. The indoor admissions and OPD will also be closed from Sunday morning. The junior doctors are angry over empty assurances given by the MLN Medical College principal for the last four months for starting newly-installed tube-well near the SRNH Emergency.
The renovation work at the PG Hostel has further added to their woes.
The construction work which started about a month back following the visit of the State Medical Education Minister suddenly stopped about a week back.
The labourers demolished ten toilets in the PG Hostel in the name of renovation, but the work never started. This left the PG students with only eight toilets.
Also, half of these toilets are lying choked with no water supply.
There is also no water supply in the wash-basin. The PG Hostel water cooler is also lying out of order for the past two-and-a-half months. The food for hostel inmates is cooked in extremely unhygienic conditions in the mess.
"How can one survive in these conditions when 150-inmates are forced to use only eight toilets and with no water supply.
What's more atleast four toilets are lying choked. There is no water for washing, bathing and other chores. Only one bathroom is getting water supply but for only half-an-hour in the morning. The 100-room PG hostel is already over crowded and the construction work has further added to our problems," said JDA president Dr Neeraj.
Dr Neeraj said ten toilets were demolished in the name of renovation about 20 days back, but the work never started.
Repeated requests were also made to start the tube-well installed at the cost of Rs 40 lakh to solve water crisis, but to no avail. "The water crisis has further deepened in the past one month and the junior doctors are left with no choice but to go on an indefinite strike from Sunday morning," he added.
