Situation in government hospitals in the city and the state returned to normal as resident doctors resumed duties on Sunday.
The resident doctors were protesting after some persons attacked the doctors in government-run medical college in Kota and Gangauri Hospital in Jaipur. The doctors were demanding security in the hospitals so that such incidents could be prevented in future.
Jaipur Association of Resident Doctors (JARD) president Rajvendra Choudhary said, “Our demand for hospital police protection force has been accepted. Now, it will be discussed how to implement it in the medical colleges.”
The doctors said suggestions will be taken from superintendents of hospitals on the hospital protection police force.
Demanding police deployment at hospitals, the resident doctors had gone on strike on Friday but at midnight they joined duties after assurances that a separate police force will be set up for hospitals.
JARD general secretary Dr Surendra Bhakal said, “We were demanding arrest of the persons who attacked doctors in Kota. We were demanding to arrest them under the non-bailable offence. Now, as they are arrested, the doctors joined their duties.”
Moreover, at the Gangauri hospital, where the doctor-attendant clash happened at the gynaecology department, one more unit of gynaecology is likely to be added. “That’s what is proposed. The government will take a decision on it. We have two units and one more unit will be added, if government passes the proposal,” Gangauri hospital superintendent Dr Ajay Mathur said, adding, “With the proposal to increase facilities in gynaecology department, such situation could be avoided.”
Moreover, the doctors have been demanding security for them since the past many years. It was one of the demands when they went on strike in 2011. Recently, three cases of attacks on doctors were reported – two in Jaipur and one in Kota. A few days ago, some persons attacked doctors in the SMS emergency ward. Since then, the hospital administration decided to limit entry of attendants in the ward to one person and also they put up channel gates on either side of the emergency and posted additional guards.
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