PG student’s death case: Patients suffer as jr docs’ strike continues

 

 

After the tragic incident of suicide by GMC’s junior doctor Bala Saraswati, the junior doctors have stopped working and sat on strike. All the junior doctors of GMC remained on strike even on Wednesday. They are demanding an inquiry into the suicide case of PG medical student and a day before, on Tuesday night, they also took out a candle march. They demand that action should be taken against those responsible for the death of 14-weeks pregnant Bala Saraswati, who ended her life after being allegedly forced to do 36-hr shifts with no medical leave. Only after this they will return to work. Agitating junior doctors say that now they don’t want any other doctor to take such a step. Due to the strike of JUDA, the health system of the hospital has collapsed. Due to this, more than 1,000 patients had to return from the hospital without treatment and operations of many serious patients have also been postponed. Dr Sanket, President of Junior Doctors Association, says that everyone’s demand is that Aruna Kumar, HOD of Gynaecology and Obstetrics Department, should resign or till the investigation is going on, she should be suspended from the post.

 

Junior doctor Bala Saraswati had committed suicide by taking an overdose of anaesthesia on Sunday night. In the suicide note, she has accused some doctors of the department of harassing him. Notably, junior doctors of GMC are taking extreme steps like suicide due to stress. To take this situation, a plan was made six months ago to make a recreation centre for MBBS and postgraduate course students at Gandhi Medical College but this plan could not be implemented till now. For this, a place is being identified in the college. yoga meditation, non-medical books like novels, stories, poems and periodicals will be available here for the students in the recreation centre. Chess, Table Tennis, Ludo and other indoor games will be available for the students to play.