Resident doctors at GMCH protesting the Kolkata incident, on Tuesday. (Pic by Satish Raut)
Staff Reporter :
Health services at GMCH, IGGMCH affected
Health services at GMCH, IGGMCH affected
THE strike by members of
Maharashtra Association of
Resident Doctors (MARD) protesting the heinous crime against a girl
student at Kolkata affected the
health services at both the tertiary
hospitals in Nagpur.
The strike at Government Medical
College and Hospital (GMCH)
and Indira Gandhi Government
Medical College and Hospital
(IGGMCH) by MARD began on
Tuesday.
MARD members had
already declared that they would
see to it that no emergency services would get hampered. They
protested the incident at Kolkata
silently by taking out a march and
raising slogans to push the demand
for action by the authorities.
The deans at GMCH and IGGMCH Dr Raj Gajbhiye and Dr Ravi
Chavan with Medical
Superintendent of GMCH Dr
Avinash Gawande, had made a preplanning to face the situation in the
wake of notice of strike by MARD.
There are over 700 members of
MARD in GMCH while around 600
in IGGMCH. As they were on strike,
the administration assumed that
the services would be affected. The
surgeries did in fact get affected.
Dr Avinash Gawande said,
“Considering the situation, we had
created alternative arrangement.
On first day we were able to manage the situation. We saw to it that
people who needed immediate attention were not ignored. The stock of medicine is
adequate, surgicals and
other things too are in proper quantity. The resident doctors are also cooperating in emergency care.”
In Medical OPD, IPD came down by half, major operations were not reduced but minor were hit by the strike. Its regular OPD is over 2,695 which has reduced to 2,638 while IGGMCH OPD witnessed rise. Its regular OPD is around 1,400 but on Tuesday it rose to 1,800. In GMCH, 42 major surgeries are performed but on Tuesday 47 surgeries were conducted while against 156 minor surgeries daily, 82 were conducted. In IGGMCH also, compared to daily number on the first day of strike 39 major surgeries were performed. The minor procedures came down to 8 as compared to 25 daily. Both tertiary hospitals had to face the issue of deliveries as those were hit because of strike.