Strike by medicos cripples OGH services
Junior doctors and post-graduate medical students protesting in Osmania General Hospital on Monday.K.V.S. GIRI Assault on junior doctors led to strike
Junior
doctors at Osmania General Hospital boycotted their duties on Monday,
crippling patient services. The protest was triggered by an alleged
assault on medicos by relatives of a patient who died at the hospital
late on Sunday.
Over 200 junior doctors and post-graduate medical students who began their boycott immediately after the incident on Sunday, protested at the hospital on Monday with slogans demanding arrest of the people who attacked their colleagues. Voicing concerns over doctors’ safety in government hospitals, they alleged the hospital administration and the State government is doing little to provide a secure work environment in government hospitals.
“This is the second such instance at OGH this month. We have repeatedly demanded greater security but the response has been inadequate. In Sunday night’s incident, one of the doctors suffered a fracture on his arm,” said G. Srinivas, Adviser to Telangana Junior Doctors’ Association. Two women junior doctors were also allegedly assaulted, the protesting medicos claimed.
The police maintained that no details of the injuries were provided to them by the protesting doctors. However, following the incident, a case was registered at Afzlagunj Police Station. One person, Nadeem, was arrested on Monday.
“Our enquiry revealed Nadeem was unhappy with treatment accorded to his mother, who died on Sunday after a week of hospitalisation. He has been booked for assault and obstructing a government servant from performing duty,” said Afzalgunj ACP G. Chakrawarthy. The offence is non-bailable. Cops said the man will be sent to judicial remand on Tuesday.
Monday’s protest hit patient services in all areas of the hospital, including the intensive care wards and emergency, though casualty services functioned with limited staff.
Aid volunteers said many patients who arrived for elective and non-emergency services, were turned away.
×Over 200 junior doctors and post-graduate medical students who began their boycott immediately after the incident on Sunday, protested at the hospital on Monday with slogans demanding arrest of the people who attacked their colleagues. Voicing concerns over doctors’ safety in government hospitals, they alleged the hospital administration and the State government is doing little to provide a secure work environment in government hospitals.
“This is the second such instance at OGH this month. We have repeatedly demanded greater security but the response has been inadequate. In Sunday night’s incident, one of the doctors suffered a fracture on his arm,” said G. Srinivas, Adviser to Telangana Junior Doctors’ Association. Two women junior doctors were also allegedly assaulted, the protesting medicos claimed.
The police maintained that no details of the injuries were provided to them by the protesting doctors. However, following the incident, a case was registered at Afzlagunj Police Station. One person, Nadeem, was arrested on Monday.
“Our enquiry revealed Nadeem was unhappy with treatment accorded to his mother, who died on Sunday after a week of hospitalisation. He has been booked for assault and obstructing a government servant from performing duty,” said Afzalgunj ACP G. Chakrawarthy. The offence is non-bailable. Cops said the man will be sent to judicial remand on Tuesday.
Monday’s protest hit patient services in all areas of the hospital, including the intensive care wards and emergency, though casualty services functioned with limited staff.
Aid volunteers said many patients who arrived for elective and non-emergency services, were turned away.
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