Doctors working in the municipal hospitals will not go on strike and halt medical services even though they are not being paid for the past three months. However, they will be supporting the agitating workers.
According to Dr RR Gautam, president of Municipal Corporation Doctors’ Association and working at Bara Hindu Rao Hospital, doctors are ready to perform their duties and provide medical services to people for all the three days during the strike provided the registration counters for OPD services are open. like Tuesday, OPD services of the hospital could not run as the registration counters were closed. However, emergency services were running.
The BJP-ruled Municipal Corporations have four hospitals under their domain which include Bara Hindu Rao, Swami Dayanand, Kasturba and Rajan Babu Tuberculosis hospital. Thousands of doctors, nurses and other administrative staff of the hospital are not given a single penny for the past three months.
While medical services of these hospital were partially hit due to massive protest demonstrated by MCD employees at Jantar Manta on Wednesday, but doctors are claiming that they will give health care services to the patients visiting municipal hospitals during strike period.
Speaking to The Pioneer, Dr RR Gautam of Hindu Rao said, “We don’t want people to suffer. Medical services will be continued during the strike period. We are supporting the agitation.”
Meanwhile, doctors of Kasturba, Swami Dayanand, Kasturba and Rajan Babu Tuberculosis hospitals are of the same view, however, patients who visited these hospitals on Wednesday faced problem in seeking medical treatment as services of a few medical department were halted.