This story is from November 22, 2019

Nalanda Medical College and Hospital junior doctors call off strike after five days

Junior doctors resumed their duties at the Nalanda Medical College and Hospital (NMCH) on Thursday evening. They called off their strike after holding talks with health department’s principal secretary Sanjay Kumar.
Nalanda Medical College and Hospital junior doctors call off strike after five days
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PATNA: Junior doctors resumed their duties at the Nalanda Medical College and Hospital (NMCH) on Thursday evening. They called off their strike after holding talks with health department’s principal secretary Sanjay Kumar.
Later, Sanjay said a show cause notice would be served on the head of the paediatrics department at the NMCH for alleged ambiguities in his duty.
The hospital’s Junior Doctors’ Association (JDA) president Dr Rajiv Ranjan Kumar Raman claimed, “We have been assured by the principal secretary of proper protection as well as fulfilment of other demands like procurement of all equipment and medicines in the hospital.”
The junior doctors at NMCH went on strike after one of their colleagues was thrashed on Saturday by the attendants of a 13-year-old boy, who died after the ventilator on which he was kept stopped functioning following power cut.
The boy was suffering from dengue.
Soon after the incident, the junior doctors went on strike demanding immediate removal of the head of paediatrics department and hospital superintendent for not making arrangements for power backup and lack of other infrastructure in the hospital. They also demanded change in the security agency, installation of CCTV cameras, security alarm system and functional monitor, ventilator oxygen point, oximeter and suction point in intensive care units of different departments. They also demanded a police outpost there.

A committee, headed by health department’s director in chief (administration) Dr Ashok Kumar Singh along with NMCH principal Dr Bijay Kumar Gupta was formed on Wednesday to probe the reason behind the child’s death and allegations of the junior doctors on the paediatrics department head.
The principal Secretary said the probe confirmed that the death of the child was not because of the power cut. “It has been found that the paediatrics department head never came to the hospital on time and even called junior doctors to his private clinic,” he added.
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