‘WORKING CONDITIONS APPALLING’
MUMBAI: Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis criticised resident doctors on Friday for being “adamant” and “insensitive” towards patients. The doctors have been criticised for paralysing the city’s public healthcare system for the last five days with their agitation, but the doctors said they are overworked and are being made scapegoats of an “ineffective healthcare system”. A senior doctor from KEM hospital called the resident doctors the “backbone” of the public healthcare system. “Their working conditions are appalling. They accompany the patient to the X-ray facility, collecting blood samples, explaining the prescription to relatives,” he said. Resident doctors said their demand for better security is due to their experiences with stressed relatives. comes for a round every hour and checks on patients,” said Dr Agarwal.
Hundred armed guards from Maharashtra Police Security Corporation would be appointed within five days and rest, 1,100 across the state are going to be deployed across 17 medical colleges of the state by April 30.
Services in the hospitals remained critically affected due to the strike, however, no untoward incident took place. VIJAYAWADA: An Indian woman and her seven-year-old son were found dead at their home in New Jersey, according to the family in Andhra Pradesh.
The victims were N Sasikala, 40, and her son Anish Sai, their family in Prakasam district said on Friday.
Sasikala’s husband N Hanumantha Rao found the bodies when he returned home from work on Thursday evening.
In Vijaywada, Sasikala’s mother told a news agency, “We suspect that they have been murdered following an affair of my son-in-law with another woman there.”
Both Hanumantha Rao and Sasikala were software professionals. Sasikala used to work from home.
The couple had been living in the US for nine years.
Y Sambasiva Rao, a member of the Andhra Pradesh state legislative assembly from Prakasam district, spoke to representatives of Telugu Association of North America (TANA) over phone about the incident. He said the mother and her son were strangulated to death.
This is the latest in a series of incidents involving Indian techies. Telangana’s aeronautical engineerwhen Adam W Purinton, who earlier served in the US Navy, shot him in Olathe, Kansas, on February 23.
Vamshi Reddy Mamidala, also from Telangana, was shot dead in Milpitas, California, on February 10 in a garage in his apartment building.
Members in both Houses of Parliament on Friday expressed their concern over the killings and demanded that the matter should be taken up by Prime Minister Narendra Modi with the American President.