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Eight die as emergency services crippled in Andhra hospitals
Saturday February 11, 2012 03:29:53 PM,
IANS
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Hyderabad: At least
eight patients have died since Friday night at government-run
hospitals in Andhra Pradesh where emergency services are crippled
following a strike by junior doctors, officials said Saturday.
Hospital officials said six patients died in the emergency ward of
Gandhi Hospital here and one each in Visakhapatnam and Kurnool
since Friday night. The relatives of the deceased alleged that
lack of medical aid resulted in the death of their kins.
About 3,000 junior doctors in 10 teaching hospitals have been
boycotting the emergency services since Friday evening to
pressurize the government to accept their demands for a 40 percent
hike in stipend and reduction in the compulsory service in rural
areas from three years to one year.
They have been on strike for nearly a month to press for their
demands but the government wants the medicos to call off their
strike before any talks can be held.
Since 90 percent of the emergency services in the hospitals are
rendered by the junior medicos, the strike has crippled the
services. Osmania and Gandhi Hospitals in Hyderabad are the worst
hit as there is hardly any doctor available to attend to the
patients.
Chaotic scenes were seen at casualty wards and intensive care
units of various departments at the hospitals in Visakhapatnam,
Vijayawada, Guntur, Kakinada, Tirupati, Anantapur, Kurnool and
Warangal.
The authorities are using the services of non-clinical specialties
staff, but the measure is proving inadequate in tackling the flow
of patients, especially accident and burn victims and others who
are critically ill, an official said.
The patients who can afford treatment in private hospitals are
leaving the government facilities but the poor have no option but
to stay there and hope for an early end to the standoff between
the government and the striking junior doctors, the official
added.
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