Doctors at trauma centre go off work after attendants misbehave

LUCKNOW: Resident doctors, including a woman doctor at the KGMU trauma centre abstained from work for over two hours after some attendants misbehaved with them on the intervening night of Sunday and Monday.

They stopped work at around 1 am and for the next two hours several patients were returned after being told that there were no doctors on duty .

Reportedly two patients died during that period but the medical university administration denied any deaths.

“Stable patients were referred to other hospitals but no deaths took place though resident doctors were not working. This is because they were attending to serious patients,” said Prof SN Sankhwar, chief medical superintendent of the KGMU.

In a follow up exercise on Monday, the King George’s

Medical University (KGMU) administration planned to deploy ex-servicemen and PAC for security.

Two rounds of meeting between resident doctors and senior officials were held. Later, administrative officials too met separately to decide the matter of security.

Two FIRS were also lodged with Chowk police and two accused were arrested who had misbehaved with the resident doctors.

“We have decided to deploy adequate security including ex-servicemen and also PAC at

trauma centre so that no unwanted elements can do mischief with the medical staff,” said Prof Sankhwar.

Security of doctors is bleak during odd hours, specially at night. During the day, up to four guards are deployed at the main entrance and several move inside the building to chase away extra people sitting on the floor.

However, at night the number of guards gets reduced and at times only one guard remains on the ground floor and the main entrance of the trauma centre.