BHOPAL : A patient brought to Hamidia Hospital in a critical condition died on Friday died during the ongoing protest of the junior doctors.
Both Dr. DK Pal, Superintendent of the Hospital and Dr. Sudhanshu Amrawanshi, Executive Member of JUDA claimed that the patient did not die because of delayed treatment due to protest or negligence of the hospital. The condition of the patient was critical when brought to hospital. Suffering from brain cancer the patient died after being admitted in the hospital.
Meanwhile, after protesting symbolically by wearing black bands, junior doctors have started parallel OPDs outside the hospitals all over the state from Saturday. More than 1,000 junior doctors across the state have stopped working in the hospital OPDs.
In the city, Junior Doctors posted in Sultania and Hamidia hospital have started parallel OPDs. Dr. Vibhor, a Junior doctor, said that they have opened OPDs so that patients do not suffer. Other doctors are working normally in OPDs without any disruptions.
Dr. Ulka Shrivastav, Dean, Gandhi Medical College said that the medical college will not tolerate any kind of hindrance in the functioning of both college and hospital. She informed that an inspection was also conducted in the college for the junior doctors on Friday. She said, “The students are here to study and it should be their prime objective. Their protests have not created any hindrance in the functioning of the hospital and that of the college. But if any such situation arises, action will be taken”.
Members of the MP Juniors Doctors Association submitted a 12-point charter of demands to the state Health Department, wherein they have claimed that even after submitting several applications to the authorities, they were not given a hearing. The junior doctors in all the six medical colleges in the state are facing the same problems.
President, MP Junior Doctors Association, Dr, Girish Chaturvedi, said that they are not demanding anything big. Their demands regarding 24-hour canteen, clean toilets and drinking water, well equipped classes and library, provisions for medical and accidental insurance are not very difficult to be fulfilled. He also said that their other demands are for the benefit of the hospitals and patients like better amenities, drugs, apparatus in wards and ICUs, adherence to ‘one patient one attendant’ rule and removal of persons who have occupied major administrative posts in colleges and hospitals for more than three years.
