Junior doctors affiliated with the Gandhi Medical College’s (GMC) Hamidia and Sultania Hospitals would not work from Friday.
Junior doctors working in Hamidia and Sultania Hospitals that are affiliated with the GMC alleging that these hospitals lack equipments and medicines, have decided to go on indefinite strike from Friday, September 18.
While, GMC Dean Dr Ulka Shrivastava has canceled the leaves of all the consultants a day ahead of the strike and has instructed them to remain onward duty from Friday morning as per the duty roster. Though the consequences of all this would have to be borne by the patients admitted in the hospitals in the form of second-rate of treatment.
President of the Junior Doctors Association (JDA) of GMC Dr Aditya lunawat while talking to the media persons said that very often fights took place between doctors and patients in Hamidia and Sultania Hospitals and the reason for these fights on most of the times is the equipments and lack of medicines. Besides, the training of junior doctors also gets affected due to lack of equipments, he added.
lunawat further said that last year memorandum was given to Health Minister Narottam Mishra and Director Medical Education Dr GS Patel to resolve both these issues but till a year after the Government has not shown any interest to resolve these problems. Hence the JDA of has decided that the junior doctors working in both these hospitals that are affected with the college would go on indefinite strike, he added.