Resident doctors at GMCH protesting the Kolkata incident, on Tuesday. (Pic by Satish Raut)

 

 

 

 

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.