This story is from December 25, 2017

Doctors’ stir hits OPD work in Bhojpur hospitals

Doctors’ stir hits OPD work in Bhojpur hospitals
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ARA: Healthcare services were affected in government hospitals and health centres across Bhojpur district as doctors boycotted outpatient department (OPD) work for the second day on Sunday to protest the alleged undignified language used by district magistrate Sanjeev Kumar against civil surgeon Ras Bihari Singh.
The doctors took out an ‘aakrosh march’ which passed through different thoroughfares of the town before culminating at the sadar hospital from where it had started.
President of IMA’s Bhojpur chapter Dr Bijay Kumar Singh, district secretary of Bihar State Health Services Association (BSHSA) Dr B K Shukla, deputy superintendent of sadar hospital Dr Satish Kumar Sinha, IMA district secretary Dr Madhukar Prakash, civil surgeon Dr Ras Bihari Singh, Dr Arun Kumar, Dr S K Kedia, Dr Suniti Prasad, Dr Vivekanand Yadav, Dr Ajay Kumar Pandey, Dr K N Sinha, Dr Jeetendra Kumar, Dr Sanjeev Pandey, Dr Ashutosh Kumar, Dr Rameshwar Sharma, Dr Ramadhar Sharma and members of the local chapter of IMA and BHSA participated in the procession.
Members of the Bihar Chikitsha ewam Jan Swasthya Karmchari Sangh have also lent support to the doctors’ agitation. About 200 members of the Sangh and 100 doctors took part in the procession.
Addressing the gathering, the Bhojpur IMA president condemned the alleged abusive and undignified language used by the Bhojpur DM against the civil surgeon. He said the doctors would continue agitation until action is taken against the DM.
The IMA and BHSA members have also written to the principal secretary of state health department, seeking his intervention in the matter.
The civil surgeon had earlier alleged that when an orthopaedic doctor got late in reaching the mega health camp at Jagdispur on Saturday, the DM used undignified language against him and also threatened to send him to jail. However, the DM, on his part, denied having used any undignified language against the doctor. “I just rebuked him for the late arrival of the orthopaedician at the health camp,” the DM said.
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