New Delhi:
Resident doctors of the Lady Hardinge Medical College and Sucheta Kriplani hospital in the city went on an indefinite strike today after one of their colleagues was allegedly beaten up by another employee of the hospital.
The strike by the doctors demanding strict against the employee put patients at the hospital to severe inconvenience. Over 300 resident doctors called off work today and are protesting in front of the medical superintendent's office demanding "adequate security and stringent action" against the Group D employee who beat up one of the resident doctors.
A resident doctor and a driver with the hospital had a quarrel over treatment of a patient at around 2 PM yesterday which turned ugly. Following this, doctors had called off work for over four hours yesterday.
Mother of an ailing child, who came to meet a doctor, said: "I was asked by a doctor with the orthopaedic department to come today. We have come all the way from Hyderabad. It is disappointing that we are not able to meet the doctor."
Though the Out Patient Department was shut, the emergency is being managed by associate professors and other senior members of the hospital.
Dr Rajiv Kumar, a resident doctor, said "we had already declared yesterday that medicos would go on an indefinite strike if immediate action is not taken against the erring employee".
"We want registration of an FIR in this regard and action should be taken against the employee who dared to raise his hands at our doctor," he said.
Last October, doctors had gone on a strike demanding dismissal of an employee who had allegedly manhandled a post-graduate student.
The strike by the doctors demanding strict against the employee put patients at the hospital to severe inconvenience. Over 300 resident doctors called off work today and are protesting in front of the medical superintendent's office demanding "adequate security and stringent action" against the Group D employee who beat up one of the resident doctors.
A resident doctor and a driver with the hospital had a quarrel over treatment of a patient at around 2 PM yesterday which turned ugly. Following this, doctors had called off work for over four hours yesterday.
Mother of an ailing child, who came to meet a doctor, said: "I was asked by a doctor with the orthopaedic department to come today. We have come all the way from Hyderabad. It is disappointing that we are not able to meet the doctor."
Though the Out Patient Department was shut, the emergency is being managed by associate professors and other senior members of the hospital.
Dr Rajiv Kumar, a resident doctor, said "we had already declared yesterday that medicos would go on an indefinite strike if immediate action is not taken against the erring employee".
"We want registration of an FIR in this regard and action should be taken against the employee who dared to raise his hands at our doctor," he said.
Last October, doctors had gone on a strike demanding dismissal of an employee who had allegedly manhandled a post-graduate student.
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