BHU: Resident Doctors end strike, join back work
About three-four youths, who had come to the Orthopedic department of BHU's trauma center for someone's treatment, had allegedly beat up a doctor on Friday.;
Varanasi: The medical facilities at the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) after the junior resident doctors ended their 'hartal' and resumed work in this Uttar Pradesh district on Monday.
Following a concrete assurance to accept the demands of the agitating doctors which also sought security, by Prof RK Jain, Director of BHU Institute of Medical Sciences, late Sunday night, the two-day strike of the doctors ended.
Sources said that Prof Jain accepted the demands of deploying adequate security personnel, apart from bouncers, fixing CCTV cameras and the formation of a committee to carry out an impartial probe into the incident pertaining to assault on a doctor at the trauma center last Friday.
In case of an emergency, the demand to arrange a central alarm facility in the hospital has also been accepted.
The junior doctors had gone on a strike on Saturday after an alleged incident of assault on a doctor of the trauma center by some students due to which the patients had to face various difficulties.
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