Services hit at Khanpur Kalan hospital too
Tribune News Service
Sonepat, August 16
Healthcare services at Bhagat Phool Singh Medical College for Women at Khanpur Kalan have been affected due to the strike of resident doctors, MBBS interns, students who are protesting the rape and murder of a resident doctor of the RG Kar Medical College in Kolkata.
Members of the Medical Teachers Association of the college are also supporting the cause. Besides, a total of 275 nurses at BPS Medical College have already been on strike for the last 10 days.
The protesting medical students staged a dharna in the OPD building and raised slogans and demanded safety for the medical fraternity, especially female doctors and students.
About 2,500 persons visit OPDs at the 700-bed hospital every day. Sources said the admission of new patients was on halt due to the striking staff and students. Apart from this, not only the general surgeries but elected surgeries, too, have been stopped.
A source in the hospital said that all wards were almost vacant. Old patients were also being discharged as there was no supportive staff available, he added.
Dr Mukesh Kumar, President, Medical Teachers’ Association (MTA), said an emergency meeting of the governing body of the association was held on Friday on the issue and everybody decided to support the protest of the medicos.
Dr Sukhdev Tandon, President, Resident Doctors Association of the college,their main demands were fast-track judicial inquiry of the crime with exemplary punishment to the perpetrators, resignation of all responsible officers – including Principal, Dean, HOD of pulmonary medicine, ACP of RG Kar Medical College, immediate apology by the Kolkata police for brutal assault on students, adequate compensation to bereaved family and immediate measures to ensure security and safety to students and resident doctors of BPSGMC for Women at Khanpur Kalan.
