Patna : Eight more patients have died duing the ongoing strike by junior doctors at the Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH) since Wednesday night, taking the total deaths to 15, official sources said on Thursday.
The strike has left hundreds of other patients, many of them serious, in a lurch. Ther attendants and family members do not know where to turn for medical attention. Seven patients died on Wednesday.
“Fifteen critical patients have so far died due to lack of treatment following the doctors’ strike in the past 36 hours, which has badly hit the Emergency and Out Patient Department services,” a hospital official said.
More than 500 junior doctors, who have struck work since Wednesday, are in no mood to relent till action is taken against police officials who canecharged them during a counselling session for admissions to post-graduate courses on Monday and left some of them injured, officials said. –IANS
