CM Rules out Negotiation with Junior Doctors
Patna: June 9, 2008
 The state government on Monday ruled out any compromise against the striking junior doctors of the Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH) saying the administration will not yield to the blackmails of a handful of doctors who took the law in their own hands without thinking about its consequences.
At a joint press conference at the end of the weekly Janata Durbar at his residence in Patna, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, accompanied by Health Minister Nand Kishore Yadav, said he had no intention of negotiating with the erring doctors who must now pay the price for their criminal, callous behavior.
 Referring to the assault on press reporters by the PMCH junior doctors and their eagerness to attack patients and their family members at the slightest of provocation, Kumar said the media was just doing its job when its members were brutally assaulted by some junior doctors who have routinely brought shame on the state's most prestigious medical college.
"We will allow the justice to take its course and will not negotiate with these doctors," the Health Minister said adding efforts were being made to arrest the absconding doctors whose may also lose their license to practice medicine.
In the meantime, the PMCH administration suspended four more junior doctors including Dr. Abhay Ranjan, Dr. Enayatullah, Dr. Azahar Hasan, and Dr. Sanjay Kumar for their roles in the attack on press cameramen.
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