Hyderabad: More than 100 doctors boycotted their duty at the government’s chest hospital a day after a doctor was attacked by a patient’s relatives.
Although emergency services remain operational, regular patients experience delays and many have to go home after waiting a few hours.
The doctors called their protest after the FIR institution was filed in this case and promises were made to order the culprit.
They also demanded tight security and ended the VIP culture.
A junior doctor was attacked on Sunday by participants of a patient, recommended by the hospital supervisor, claiming doctors.
Angry protests rocked the government’s chest hospital in the city on Monday with more than 100 doctors boycotting the duty a day after a doctor was attacked by relatives of a patient.
The doctors then called their protest after the FIR institution was submitted in this case and promised to order the perpetrator.
Doctor Junior Krishnan n was beaten on the face, chest and stomach on Sunday and has complained of pain.
Angry at their colleagues, dozens of doctors began to strike, leaving patients in trouble.
Although emergency services remain operational, regular patients experience many delays and many have to go home after waiting a few hours.
“I came to follow up from the problem of posting Covid-19 my father.
He suffered from breathing and dead problems.
Only after we came here and waited for two hours we knew that there were long queues and doctors were protesting,” said Rifat BI, which come from Mehdipatnam.
Other patients waited in the queue, Radhikamma, who came from the uppal, said, “People who hit the doctors must be punished.
They have destroyed the relationship between patients and doctors.
Today, the doctor is not ready to see us.
Where are we going?” The doctors who protested to raise slogans with placards who said ‘we treated patients equivalent to’, ‘zero tolerance to violence’ and ‘we treat- …
save the Savior’, while the senior doctor manages outpatient services with less than half.
The hospital has nearly 200 total doctors where more than 100 has joined protests and with only 50 doctors left for shifts, regular services affected throughout the day.
Although a regular FIR was filed on Sunday, the doctors demanded that the institutional FIR be submitted by the hospital so that the punishment was firmly distributed to the defendant.
“We demanded that the FIR Institution be submitted.
Seven officers who have attacked the doctor yesterday were patients recommended by supervisors,” said Dr.
Naresh, a representative of the Junior Telangana Doctor Association (Tjuda), a chest hospital.
The doctors also demanded strict security at the hospital and ended the VIP culture.