JUNIOR DOCTORS’ strike in protest against thrashing of their colleagues by PTS jawans onboard Nauchandi Express at Moradabad station, continued on the third day today, paralysing medical services in the Swaroop Rani Nehru Hospital.
The doctors were returning from Meerut after taking PG examination on January 15 when they were mercilessly beaten up.
Junior doctors took out a procession and marched up to Allahabad Medical Association (AMA) office and appealed to the doctors to join their agitation. The medicos also urged senior teachers of the medical college to join the strike.
However, the AMA leaders who agreed to extend all cooperation to the striking medicos, said they were waiting for the decision of the Uttar Pradesh unit of the Indian Medical Association in this regard.
Meanwhile, the medicos also burnt effigies of the government, the railway minister and PTS officials.
The strike crippled health services, affecting hundreds of patients thronging the SRN hospital for treatment and operation follow-ups. No operations could be carried out today and most of the patients admitted to different wards, preferred to leave the hospital and take shelter in various nursing homes.
Those who were not in a position to meet the costly treatment at nursing homes, left themselves to their fate. SRN wards bore a deserted look with no patient around.
{{/usCountry}}Those who were not in a position to meet the costly treatment at nursing homes, left themselves to their fate. SRN wards bore a deserted look with no patient around.
{{/usCountry}}Meanwhile, the medicos who had earlier demanded that the guilty be sent to jail and their dismissal from service, compensation to the injured doctors including provision of their safety, on Wednesday included action against the station master and in-charge PTS in the list of their demands.
They also demanded compensation of Rs 25 lakh to a doctor from Gorakhpur who suffered paralysis due to brutal beating and Rs 5,000 each to the other injured colleagues.