Second strike of resident doctors in Civil Hospital in a fortnight ends

Ahmedabad/Gandhinagar: The second strike of resident doctors owing to alleged attacks by relatives of patients in Civil Hospital here within a fortnight, ended today.

The strike which started from Wednesday night after the alleged attack on a doctor by a relative of a woman cancer patient with sharp edged weapon, had put the patients in great difficulty. Owing to this, many critically ill patients and their relatives had even held protest by blocking the road in front of the hospital in Asarwa area of the city.

The strike ended after the talk between the doctor’s representatives and minister of state for health Shanker Chaudhary at circuit house in Gandhinagar.

Superintendent of the hospital M Prabhakar later said that the issues regarding security of the doctors was raised in the meeting and the resident doctors decided to end their strike with immediate effect after assurance about various steps in this regard by the government.

Notably the nursing staff of the hospital, which is among one of the largest medical facilities in Asia, had also joined the strike of the resident doctors. They have also resumed duties.

Earlier on March 22 also the resident doctors of the hospital had went on to a flash strike after attack on them by some relatives of a patient in trauma center. The strike had ended the next day after arrest of the culprits and assurance from government about adequate security arrangement for them including starting a police post near the trauma center.

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