With the resident doctors joining the ongoing strike of the junior doctors and house surgeons on Monday putting the patients in distress, the hapless VSS Institute of Medical Science and Research (VIMSAR) authorities appealed to the State Government to facilitate an end to the stir at the soonest.
“The health service at the hospital is totally in a mess. The agitation of the doctors needs to be called off without any further delay in the interest of the patients,” said the helpless VIMSAR Dean.
It has been over a week that 450 junior doctors and house surgeons have resorted to cease-work demanding installation of an MRI machine, delegation of financial and administrative
power to VIMSAR, shifting of female medicine ward to a new building, strengthening of security on the medical college premises, round-the-clock water and electricity supply at the operation theater, a labor room, a sick newborn care unit (SNCU), an intensive care unit (ICU), a new medicine ward, a canteen, hostels, an increase in library fund, recruitment of staff for the library, filling up of vacant teaching and nonteaching posts and improvement in the sanitary condition of the institute.
Meanwhile, the State Government has transferred VIMSAR Principal Dr Santosh Kumar Behera for remaining on leave during the agitation and posted Prof Dr Bijya Kumar Dutt as the new Principal.