Rajasthan doctors' strike: Deaths, threats & blackmail(EVEN DOCTORS VIEWS NEED TO BE HEARD AND ADDRESSED!!THEY ARE DEMANDING SALARY HIKES!!...VT)
Source: DNA | | Last Updated 12:28(24/12/11)
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Jaipur: The statewide protest by doctors scaled into a full-fledged war on Friday with more than 5000 in-service doctors tendering mass resignations from their posts. The government too mounted a counter-offensive by deputing doctors from the Armed forces and the Railways at the government hospitals, and prevent a total collapse of the health services in state.
But, for thousands of patients caught in the crossfire, the measures proved too little and too late offering them little respite as the strike entered its third day. The teachers attached to medical colleges, who were attending to patients till Friday, announced they would also be on mass leave on Saturday. The medical teachers' association warned it would be forced to join the strike if the government did not accede to the demands of practicing doctors and withdraw the essential services Act (RESMA) under which the agitating doctors were being placed under arrest.
Speaking over their collective stand to resign, Dr Gauri Shankar, core committee member of in-service doctor's association said, "We are resigning against the illconceived policies of state government; the Government will have to heed to our demands," Shankar said.
The condition ofmedical services in the Sawai Man Singh Hospital deteriorated on day 3 of the doctor's strike. To make matters worse, senior doctors boycotted work for 2 hours from 9 am to 11 am. Wailing and grieving patients and their relatives queued outside the Out-Patient Department as doctors chatted away in the hospital lawns. One of their unfortunate patients, Jagdish Prasad, died of paralysis in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the SMS hospital. A hospital source said that Jagdish Prasad was admitted to the hospital on Dec 21. He died at 9.45 am on Friday; there was no doctor inside the ICU then."
Dr RC Yadav of All Rajasthan Medical Teachers Association held the bureaucrats responsible for the strike and warned if the demands of the senior doctors were not met they would also go on strike.
The situation in emergencywas equally bad. There was only one senior doctor present in the emergency while eight injured patients of a bus accident waited for their turn. Medical superintendent LC Sharma assisted the doctor and tried to help the trauma patients.
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