Junior doctors in Hamidia Hospital staged protest over demand of adequate facility in hospital to treat critical care patients. President of Junior Doctors Association Dr Arvind Mina said that they are considered as frontline warriors and in such a case it is important to support doctors with financial aid for treatment of COVID-19 is important. Junior doctors are facing maximum risk as they are on duty in COVID-19 wards all the time.

 

Other facilities pathology infrastructure, medicines are not available which is affecting patients especially to treat critical care patients. Around 80 doctors have thus forgotten infected with COVID-19 and treatment of COVID patients cost of Rs 30,000 and more. Junior doctors are on strike demanding financial support for the treatment of coronavirus for the same, he added.

 

However, the Medical Superintendent of Bhopal’s Hamidia Hospital, I D Chaurasia said that the strike by junior doctors will not affect the medical services in the hospital. They contend that if doctors are not supported at this juncture, then it will be difficult for the healthcare workers to continue to the fight against the novel coronavirus as hospital is lacking adequate infrastructure. The agitators said that this issue had been brought to the knowledge of the authorities, however, but no concrete steps have been taken this far.