Rajasthan resident Doctors strike - 55 patients dead

[Ronan Kelly]

At a doctor rally, several days ago, riot police baton (lathi) charged the doctors causing some injuries. As a result all resident doctors in the state have stopped working.

Hindi to English translation
16 killed, including seven newborn, doctors continue strike
Source: Manoj sharma | Last Updated 13:58 (06/09/10)
Despite 60 hours of administration on any initiatives, MDM Hospital also closed the door on the third day

Jodhpur. Dr. Sen Medical College Resident Doctors strike in protest against assault by the police landed in Jodhpur resident, senior doctors and private practitioners have not returned to work on Monday. Chaotic hospitals - patient medication and treatment around Hfarie atmosphere and are lost to. Meanwhile, Mahatma Gandhi and Mathuradass Mathur hospital Monday morning - and the breath of a patient broke. Due to the strike so far has killed 16 people. Many of them desperately needed treatment.
Meanwhile, MDM hospital doctors protest continues Menaget stopped there. Umaid hospital patients not being admitted. Outdoors, the situation even worse and doctors from the government imposed state control is not coming. This situation is the Mahatma Gandhi hospital. Patients in private hospitals are not being treated. Medical stores and Testing Center is not open.

Administration is taking no steps about the strike. Despite the passage of sixty-hour strike ended to make any move on behalf of the administration has not. Meanwhile, the doctors met once again that continuing the strike until their demands have decided to observe not have Ghy.

Jaipur, Rajasthan continue strike in

Here, Jaipur and Udaipur are the same in the circumstances. State's largest hospital and its affiliated hospitals in SMS strike continued. Doctors Arejizdento not returned to work, there came to the streets in Udaipur doctor and he demonstrated aggressive.
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[Ronan Kelly]

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Doctors on strike, 23 die in hospital
HT Correspondent, Hindustan Times
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Jaipur, September 07, 2010First Published: 00:36 IST(7/9/2010)
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The ongoing doctors' strike in Rajasthan has paralysed health services in the state, with work in all six government medical colleges and attached hospitals coming to a halt. Eight more patients' deaths were reported on Monday, taking the toll to 23 since the strike by around 5,000 doctors began on Saturday night to protest a police lathi charge on doctors in Jodhpur.

It was, however, not immediately clear how many patients' deaths could be directly linked to the strike.

Doctors in Jodhpur began a hunger strike on Monday, demanding dismissal of the guilty policemen. They also burnt an effigy of Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot.

The strike comes at a time when the state government has enforced the Epidemic Act to tackle the rising cases of H1N1 flu, which has claimed at least 28 lives in Rajasthan in the past month.

Gehlot and state Health Minister Aimaduddin Ahmed Khan appealed to doctors to call off the strike. A delegation of resident doctors met Khan on Monday morning.

A contingency plan has been put in place under which the health department is deputing additional doctors from hospitals in nearby districts. Khan said 59 doctors have been asked to join at Jaipur, 62 at Jodhpur, 15 at Kota, 30 at Bikaner and 24 at Ajmer .

"If required, services from ESI (Employees' State Insurance), railway and military hospitals would be taken," he said.

Residents in Jodhpur's MDM Medical College began the strike on Saturday night after a crackdown by the police njured 28 doctors and medical students.

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Re: Rajasthan resident Doctors strike - 23 patients dead

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Docs' strike claims 31 lives in Raj
TNN, Sep 7, 2010, 02.16am IST

JAIPUR: In what must shame doctors sworn to serve patients under the Hippocratic oath, 21 critically ill patients lost their lives in Jodhpur Government Hospital as around 1,200 medicos, including specialists, struck work in six medical colleges in Rajasthan. All the deaths so far have taken place in Jodhpur Government Hospital, where doctors have been on strike since Saturday night, after some of them were allegedly assaulted by cops.

The grim situation, in all likelihood, will deteriorate further on Tuesday with private practitioners, nurses and senior doctors joining strike in Jaipur and Jodhpur. The agitation comes at a time when the Rajasthan government is battling to contain swine flu which has claimed 28 lives.

A TOI report from Jodhpur said that while 17 people, including seven kids, died on Sunday, 14 deaths were reported on Monday. A young woman, Asha, who got pneumonia, died at Mathur hospital in Jodhpur on Sunday as she could not be put on a ventilator. Magh raj (32), of Falodi in Jodhpur, died due to head injury as there was none at the trauma centre to treat him.
State health minister Emamuddin Ahmed, whose repeated appeals to end the strike have evoked no response from the striking doctors, said Rajasthan would seek support of Central, Army and ESI doctors to overcome the crisis. "We have appealed to the doctors to resume work... at the same time, we are seeking the Army's and Centre's help,'' he added.

The minister said most deaths were due to negligence and lack of treatment. He added, "The matter would be investigated and serious action taken against those responsible for these deaths.'' Chief minister Ashok Gehlot has asked authorities to speed up efforts to end the strike.

Doctors posted in rural areas to six government hospitals are being roped in to perform emergency services. Also, senior residents and faculty in cities like Kota, Udaipur, Bikaner and Ajmer have so far not joined the strike.

Junior residents in Jodhpur struck work on Saturday night protesting against the alleged police lathicharge on their colleagues. The police action itself took place after junior residents tried to disrupt patients' treatment at Mathura Das hospital following a brawl between attendants of a patient and a few doctors.

"We have four demands and we won't resume work until these are met,'' said Dr Krishnakant Sahu, president of Jaipur Association of Resident Doctors. The demands are: one, the termination of cops responsible for lathicharge; two, proper security to doctors; three, withdrawal of cases against 33 resident doctors; and, four compensation to students injured in police action.
In Jodhpur, resident doctors and medical students took out a march on and burnt the effigy of "the state government'' at Nai Sarak circle. Some doctors were also seen on a hunger strike.

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Re: Rajasthan resident Doctors strike - 31 patients dead

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Rajasthan doctors' strike continues, 55 patients die

Headlines Today Bureau
Jaipur, September 7, 2010
Updated 14:52 IST

Situation continues to worsen in Rajasthan government hospitals where doctors remained on strike for the third consecutive day even as 55 unattended patients died till Tuesday afternoon.

So far, 22 patients have died in Jaipur, 30 in Jodhpur while three deaths have been reported from Bikaner since the doctors' strike started on Sunday. However, officials in the state medical and health directorate maintained that the deaths were not connected to the strike.

Despite the increasing number of deaths, the doctors have been adamant on continuing with the strike. A section of doctors who had reported back to work on Tuesday morning were also forced to join the strike again despite assurances from authorities that their complaints would be considered.

The doctors are protesting assault on their colleagues during a police lathicharge at the MDM Hospital in Jodhpur. The police action came after a scuffle between medicos and relatives of a patient.



Medical services have been severly hit in Rajasthan.The striking doctors have been preventing even those from working who want to report back to duty. A senior doctor at Jaipur's Mahatma Gandhi Medical College was beaten up by junior medicos when he tried to attend to patients.

Dr Dheeraj was beaten up so badly that he had to undergo an eye surgery. Doctors fear he might lose sight in the injured eye. In a damage control bid, the college administration has rusticated all five medicos allegedly involved in the attack.

Death due to strike unacceptable: Union minister
Meanwhile, Union Minister of State for Health Dinesh Trivedi flayed the Rajasthan doctors for going on strike. Speaking to Headlines Today he said even one death due to the doctors' strike was not acceptable.

"Even one person should not die because of this kind of negligence and irresponsible behaviour of the doctors. Although Health is a state subject, I have asked my ministry to immediately look into the matter and get in touch with the state government," Trivedi said.

"People like doctors are supposed to save lives and I don't think anything could be as sad if someone loses his life because of the strike," the minister said adding that the agitation should be resolved through negotiations.

Deadlock continues
Rajasthan Health Minister A.A. Khan met senior officials and doctors to resolve the deadlock. He said the authorities made a concerted effort to persuade the striking doctors not to continue with the stir as infections like swine flu and seasonal diseases were affecting the common man.

He expressed the hope that resident doctors like senior doctors will call off their agitation as Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has promised to examine their grievances.

With inputs from PTI
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Jodhpur doctors on strike, reports of 30 dead
Harsha Kumari Singh, Updated: September 07, 2010 15:18 IST


Jodhpur: It's near impossible to get any sort of medical care in Jodhpur - a massive strike by the city's doctors at all six government hospitals is now in its third day.

Thirty people have died since Saturday, when the strike began. An angry and emotional city blames the strike for these deaths. "These deaths happen in normal course too. Now as the strike is on, people feel the figures are increasing. We've appealed to the doctors that it's their moral responsibility towards the patients (to treat them). For the past two days, the Chief Minister is monitoring this personally," says Rajasthan's Health Minister, A A Ahmed.

On Tuesday morning, the crisis scaled up after senior doctors who had gone back to work did a u-turn and rejoined the strike...

 

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Rajasthan doctors end 3-day strike


Jodhpur: After extensive negotiation with the government, doctors in Rajasthan have ended a three-day strike that caused a medical crisis in Jodhpur.

1200 doctors had been refusing to work since Saturday night, when doctors and a patient's relatives clashed at Jodhpur's MDM hospital. Doctors say seven of them were injured when the police intervened. (Read: Jodhpur doctors on strike, reports of 30 dead)

30 people have died in Jodhpur since then; an angry and emotional city blamed these deaths on the strike, though the Health Minister pointed out that there was no evidence to suggest this.

To woo the doctors back to work, the government has promised that police cases registered against doctors for Saturday night's violence will be dropped.�� Senior officers who ordered the lathicharge at the hospital will also be punished.
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The Epidemic Act has been in force in Rajasthan since late last year because of an outbreak of swine flu. Currently, more than 400 patients with swine flu have been counted across the state. The Act, which effectively declares a state of medical emergency, prevents doctors from taking any time off.

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