Why take away security from hospital? LHMC resident doctors demand reinstatement of terminated security personnel

Medical Dialogues team had earlier reported that state-run Lady Hardinge Medical College and Associated SSK & KSC Hospitals had issued an order temporarily withdrawing the services of marshals and bouncers hired for security purposes in the hospital, days after the Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya visited the hospital.

The order issued by deputy director Dr V K Sharma on October 31 observed that the services of the marshals and bouncers would be terminated with immediate effect

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Some doctors of the association said that if bouncers are removed then there should be the deployment of CISF or any other force as withdrawing the bouncers will put their lives at risk.

"The Resident Doctors' Association strongly opposes the decision of temporarily terminating security marshals/bouncers deployed in our institution," the RDA said.

"This notice has created a state of panic among the resident doctors who are working hard day and night to take care of patients. Resident doctors working in emergency and in other vulnerable areas are in constant threat of becoming a victim of an assault. So, we humbly request you to kindly reinstate marshals/bouncers, which will provide a safe environment for our working resident doctors," it wrote to the hospital director.

On the instructions of Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya, the services of marshals and bouncers were withdrawn from Lady Hardinge Medical College and Associated Hospitals from November 1.

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