Posing for security and dignity, resident doctors in New Delhi call for strike abide attendants assault operating doctor

New Delhi, July 1: Citing the allegation that the attendants of a patient assaulted a doctor at the Hindu Rao Hospital in New Delhi, the resident doctors have decided to direct a strike, posing for their security and dignity.

 

The doctors on strike have however cleared that only emergency services will be operational. “As long as this happens we won't do any work. Only emergency services and nothing else will be operational”, said Dr Abhishek Bhatia.

 

 

Explaining the actual situation posing the insecure community, Dr Bhatia said, “A doctor was thrashed and injured here last night. Patient wasn't in a good condition. Despite of explaining everything, 10-15 people came and thrashed the doctor”.

 

“The patient was gasping for breath and had very poor vitals,” Dr Piyush Singh, acting president of the Resident Doctor’s Association at the hospital said. “She had been recommended dialysis thrice a week but had not been following directions. The attending doctor explained her condition to the attendants. She was declared dead soon. The attendants became violent when the doctor was signing the death certificate and the attending doctor was beaten up. He received cuts on his head”, he added.

 

Doctors in West Bengal had also gone on strike last month after a mob attacked two interns following the death of a patient at NRS Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata. The doctors called off their strike a week later, following talks with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.