‘WORKING CONDITIONS APPALLING’

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.

AAYUSHI PRATAP