Amritsar: Junior Resident strike ended at GMC
Amritsar:Junior Resident doctors of the Government medical College (GMC) have ended their protest after the hospital authorities conceded to their demands with the intervention of the Deputy Commissioner today. The doctors were on strike against the manhandling of one of their colleagues at the hands of a patient’s attendants, who died in the hospital while undergoing treatment.
After the incident, the doctors had been asking for hospital security to be stepped up, as incidents of attacks on doctors by patient attendants were on the increase.
The PG Student’s Association said that they has called off the strike as all of their demands had been conceded to by the college authorities.
Some of the demands met with by the College management were deployment of 33 guards and five police personnel in an attempt to step up security. The authorities commitment to introduce token system for attendants of patients as is the custom at PGI, Chandigarh.
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