Doctors on indefinite strike protesting police action

Resident doctors of all the seven government medical colleges in the state went on indefinite strike from Wednesday protesting an incident at Zenana Hospital attached to Ajmer’s Jawahar Lal Nehru Medical College.

Jaipur Association of Resident Doctors (JARD) president Dr Vijay Singh Chaudhary said, “Police in Ajmer had barged into the labour room inquiring about the duty officer against whom an FIR was lodged. They wore shoes inside the room and even humiliated a doctor when stopped. This is sheer violation of protocols.”

Protesting this incident, resident doctors of JLN Medical College went on strike from Saturday and extending support to them doctors of other medical colleges in the state, including resident doctors of Sawai Man Singh Medical College in Jaipur, who went on strike from Wednesday. The strike will continue till the matter is resolved, Dr Chaudhary added.

He further said there are around 2,500 resident doctors in seven government medical colleges in the state of which around 1,400-1,500 are from SMS medical college and its attached hospitals in Jaipur. The government medical college are in Jaipur, Ajmer, Kota, Udaipur, Bikaner, Jodhpur and Jhalawar.

SMS Medical College principal Dr Sudhir Bhandari said the outpatient department (OPD) had a rush of around 10,000 patients on Wednesday who were attended by senior faculty members and medical officers.

Explaining about the incident, Ajmer resident doctors association president, Dr Rajendra Singh Lamror said, police barged into the labour room and misbehaved with doctors on duty.

Overstepping its jurisdiction, police entered into out of bound area (labour room) threatening doctors to reveal the names of doctors on duty on November 13, he said.

Christian Ganj police station SHO Ravindra Kumar said after the FIR, they had gone to make an inquiry of the doctor on duty who tried to molest the lady in the labour room.

“We had gone to the labour room to talk to the senior-most doctor of the hospital, as hospital superintendent was on leave that day, to know the names of the doctors on duty on Tuesday”, said Kumar.

The resident doctors are doing this to evade inquiry against their fellow doctor, he added.

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