Junior Doctors withdraw Strike; Resume Work
Patna: June 13, 2008
After 8 days of absence from work and amassing huge disdain from the ordinary citizens for their penchant for breaking law and roughing up anyone who do not meet their expectations, the junior doctors of the Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH) withdrew their strike and resumed their duties on Friday.
With threats of losing their license to practice medicine, the junior doctors who had gone on strike after engaging in a series of acts of violence in last few weeks including beating up the family members of a Patna lawyer whose 9-year old daughter had died at the hospital while receiving treatment; kicking off a patient and her little sister from the hospital bed just because the girl was tired and had been crying to go home, and finally, the assault on press photographers who were just doing their job on June 5 when they were brutally attacked by the junior doctors sending three reporters to various hospitals.
Earlier, the senior doctors of the hospital also threatened to go on strike in support of their junior colleagues but were forced to abandon the idea following threats of severe actions against them by the government.
Patients have started to come in from all over the state though it would be some time before normalcy is completely restored in the hospital, officials said.
Meanwhile, the ten doctors who face arrest warrants in the cameramen assault case continue to remain underground to avoid apprehension.
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