Warring groups trade charges

President of the resident doctors association, Dr D. Poddar stated the doctors will not resume work till the security aspect is looked into. The karamcharis have alleged that the doctors misbehaved with Dr Suman, a colleague of the doctors but the wife of their Union leader.

The hospital, in fact, seems to have turned into a hotbed of politics where the doctors and employees seem to be spending more time in settling scores with each other, rather than taking care of the ailing.

The latest clash between the warring groups has again exposed the murky side of its functioning wherein a seemingly minor dispute over the use of the mess at the doctors’ hostel has resulted in fisticuffs, a police case and the strike.

A faculty member till recently attached with the hospital claims that the reported assault on a doctor, Inder Pal, which led to the showdown and the subsequent strike, never really took place. The issue, he added, was being politicised by a section of the doctors and employees to wrest favours. The man who was “brutally assaulted” was reported missing when the head of the neurosurgery department was summoned to examine him. The staff reportedly chased him all over the campus to make him undergo a medical test to facilitate a medico legal case (MLC).

“The neurosurgeon stated there was no need to admit the patient since there were no injuries,” he alleged, adding that by the time, the case was lodged with the police and a few arrests had been made, taking the whole situation out of hand “Had the MS, Dr R.K. Srivastava, mediated earlier, the situation would not have been so bad,” a senior faculty member stated. The MS has now instituted a committee of four doctors to play peacemaker.