A woman who was accompanying a patient to the PGI in Chandigarh attacked a woman doctor. There was an uproar due to the attack on a doctor while she was on duty and the emergency doctors stopped their work. The matter has escalated so much that doctors have flatly refused to treat patients. After 8 pm, patients admitted to the emergency room are not treated nor are patients admitted here. At the same time, due to the doctors’ strike, a patient who came here for treatment in critical condition died. Their relatives blame the striking doctors for this.
At 8 p.m. on Monday night, a woman accompanying a patient admitted to the PGI emergency room attacked a resident doctor. After this incident, the doctors started creating a ruckus and stopped working in the emergency room. The resident doctors gather at one place and protest. Their demand is that a police case be opened against the woman who attacked the doctor and that in the future strict measures be taken for the safety of the doctors, only after this will they be able to return to work. After receiving information about the disturbance, officers from the PGI police station also reached the spot. A patient resident of New Chandigarh died due to lack of treatment after the emergency ceased. The patient’s name is Sunita Devi.
There was a strike for several days protesting the Calcutta rape case.
Earlier, doctors at PGI in Chandigarh had protested bitterly for several days and paralyzed work for several days in connection with the rape and murder of a female trainee doctor in Kolkata. As around 1,500 resident and trainee doctors of the PGI went on strike together, patients and their families had to face a lot of problems in almost all wards, OPD and emergency rooms. Every day, thousands of patients from Chandigarh, Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Rajasthan come to PGI for treatment.
​Report: Moni Devi
