Health services hit in Bihar due to Statewide doctors strike
Health services including emergency services were badly hit at various places here due to junior doctors strike in protest against the thrashing of their counterparts at Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH) following the death of an engineer last night.
State health minister Tej Pratap Yadav`s assurance to junior doctors that stern action would be taken against culprits and a thorough probe would be conducted into the incident of thrashing by students could not cut much ice as junior doctors continued to boycott their duty.
Unruly mobs of students living in hostels in the vicinity of PMCH chased and thrashed junior doctors badly after a rumour spread that a student died due to their negligence at PMCH.
Patients and their attendants had a harrowing time through out the day as junior doctors, considered as the mainstay of government medical colleges and hospitals abstained from their duty to express their solidarity with their colleagues in the PMCH.
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