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Strike on, patients move out
PATIENTS HAVE started shifting from Nehru Hospital at Baba Raghav Das Medical College to private hospitals and nursing homes in view of the junior doctors? strike against the Nauchandi Express incident. The strike entered the fourth day on Thursday. With health services being affected, patients from remote areas have no option except but to go to private hospitals. On Thursday, junior doctors took out a procession from Rajendra Hostel and raised slogans against the State Government.
PATIENTS HAVE started shifting from Nehru Hospital at Baba Raghav Das Medical College to private hospitals and nursing homes in view of the junior doctors’ strike against the Nauchandi Express incident. The strike entered the fourth day on Thursday.
With health services being affected, patients from remote areas have no option except but to go to private hospitals.
On Thursday, junior doctors took out a procession from Rajendra Hostel and raised slogans against the State Government.
Office-bearers of the Junior Doctors’ Association, including Ashish Gangwar, Dr Rajiv Ranjan Singh, Dr Rizwan Azmi, Dr Rahul and Dr Parijat, said they would continue their strike till dismissal and arrest of all the accused.
Though senior resident doctors were on duty, services at the outpatient department and emergency wards were affected. There was no junior doctor to examine patients. No operation could be conducted due to the strike on Wednesday.
Office-bearers of the JDA said the State Government was only paying lip service to the junior doctors’ cause and had taken no concrete steps to check recurrence of Nauchandi Express-type incidents.
They said a meeting of the JDA was held at Lucknow, adding, “We have decided to continue the strike till fulfilment of our demands.”
They said that they failed to get a positive response from the government.
Meanwhile, Medical College Teachers’ Association president Dr AK Rathi also condemned police action against the junior doctors and said the teachers’ association would support the strike by junior doctors.
However, the Nehru Hospital chief medical superintendent claimed here that health services remained unaffected as resident doctors were attending patients.
