GMC Bhopal former MBBS student allegedly attempts suicide by taking drug overdose

Bhopal: Days after a pregnant postgraduate medico died by suicide at Madhya Pradesh’s Gandhi Medical College (GMC), a former MBBS student allegedly attempted suicide on Thursday even as junior doctors and teachers of the institution were on strike.  

The deceased, a resident of Gwalior, who completed his MBBS course this year and was a trainee at the GMC, was under psychiatric treatment due to depression for the last few months. 

He consumed an overdose of medicines and got unconscious following which he was admitted to the Hamidia Hospital, the largest government-run hospital in the state.

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His condition was out of danger but he has been kept on regular monitoring by the doctors, a doctor informed IANS.

For the past three days, OPD and emergency medical services were suspended at Hamidia Hospital as all junior doctors and medical teachers have gone on protest after the death of Dr Saraswati Bala.

Around 50-55 surgeries have been postponed in the last 24 hours.

Dr Bala, who hailed from Hyderabad, was 14 weeks pregnant and was pursuing her post-graduation in gynaecology. Her husband lodged an FIR, alleging that she was under acute pressure as she was regularly harassed by the head of the department of obstetrics and gynaecology in the GMC.

Medical Dialogues team had recently reported that the HOD of the gynaecology department of Gandhi Medical College, (GMC) Bhopal has been removed from her post by the college authorities on Wednesday after allegations came to light that she allegedly harassed a 27-year-old pregnant PG student, leading her suicide.

Although the authorities sacked the HOD to end the junior doctor's strike, the agitating doctors have confirmed that they will call off the strike only when they receive a copy of the official order.

Dr Bharti Singh Parihar of the department has been made the in-charge HOD in place of her. 

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