Docs’ strike has 9 ‘dead’ in Bihar

Police were called in immediately and two people arrested but the junior doctors went on strike demanding adequate security in the hospital campus.

‘‘We can’t work in these conditions. Everytime something happens we are targeted by relatives. There have been so many such cases,’’ said one junior doctor.

Some 34 doctors were sent from the Health department to the PMCH to help treat the patients. ‘‘Yes I have heard that patients are suffering and that’s why doctors from the Health Department were sent.

“It is a serious matter and negotiations are going on,’’ said Bihar Medical Education Minister Shakeel Ahmed. He said that he had asked the hospital management to end the strike.

He said that the state government was ready to look into the junior doctors’ demand if they called off the strike. A police force has also been deployed in the hospital campus, he said. He dismissed reports that nine critically-injured patients had died due to negligence.