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Teachers also join protest march
JOINING HANDS resident doctors and teachers of King George?s Medical University on Tuesday took out a protest march on the campus, in the afternoon. Junior doctors also organised a candle light march in the night.
JOINING HANDS resident doctors and teachers of King George’s Medical University on Tuesday took out a protest march on the campus, in the afternoon. Junior doctors also organised a candle light march in the night.
The march was organised to protest the assault on doctors who were returning from Meerut by the Nauchandi Express, after taking the PGME exams.
The Resident Doctors’ Association (RDA) at first took out a march on campus at 11 am and closed various Out Patient Departments. They first reached the Medicine department and then the Paediatric raising slogans against the chief minister and the state administration.
They then moved towards the Orthopaedics and Lari Cardiology to disturb the OPD. Taking a round of the campus, the doctors reached the administrative block.
The KGMU Teachers Association also joined hands with the agitating doctors and decided to go for collective protest. Over 100 teachers and doctors then marched from the Vice Chancellor office to the Trauma Centre, where 10 injured students are recovering from injuries.
However, the teachers’ association has criticised the RDA’s call of strike and stated that the strike should not be the means of protest.
“We stand with the protest but strike hurts patients. We have appealed to students to continue working at least in the emergency,” said the secretary of teachers association Dr SN Kuril.
Teachers of various departments have been assigned duties to manage the crisis of junior doctors in the wards and also OPD. Senior faculty members were attending the OPD since morning as the residents were missing. But it was closed when the protest was raised on the campus.
Admissions in the Trauma Centre were restricted to only a dozen till this afternoon. Only patients with serious illness were admitted while the rest were referred to Balrampur and Civil Hospitals. Over 70 patients were admitted through Trauma Centre in the last 24 hours.
“Only those patients that can get treatment here are being given admission, while the cases that need only medication are being referred to other places,” said a senior faculty member. The priority is to manage the indoor patients and all attempts are being made to provide OPD services from Wednesday, he said.
In the night, resident doctors took out a candle light march from the administrative block to Scientific Convention Centre demanding arrest of all those who hit doctors in the train.
The meeting of the Resident Doctors’ Association was also held with the members of UP Nursing Home Association, Association of Private Medical Practitioners and Chemists Association where the RDA president Dr Devashish Shukla kept before the demands and demanded support from them. A show of strength has been organised by RDA on campus, on Wednesday morning.
Meanwhile, six injured doctors who were admitted at Trauma Centre were discharged after considerable improvement in their condition. There is no irrecoverable injury to any of those left at the Trauma Centre.
The ones still under treatment are Dr Sharad Chandra (1999 batch) with fracture in the jaws and head injury, Dr Anant Verma (2000 batch) with head and cervical injuries and Dr Bhartendu (1999 batch) with head, cervical and thoracic injuries, Dr Sandip Kumar (2000 batch).
