Uttarakhand: GMC Doon associated hospital reports strike

The strike has created an adverse impact on works including the registration process, billing procedure and medicine disbursement in the hospital. The path lab and radiology department procedure has also hit a bottleneck, causing worry for patients and relatives visiting the hospital.

The registration counters were still opened by the hospital administration by deploying permanent staff.

The situation at the path lab got so chaotic, that the pathologists refused to attend patients at one point of time. After 11.30 am no samples were collected after pathologist's refusal.

The situation in the radiology department was under pressure for the technicians. They were doing a dual job of conducting scans and also provided temporary cash recipes.

The in-charge of MRI wing, Mahendra Bhandari implied that the department is functional normally. .

The patients and their relatives are the one who are suffering the most by this strike. "After much wait at registration counter and outside the chamber of Doctor, I got to know that the blood samples are not being taken. Now I am forced to get these tests done from a private lab,'' said Mahesh Pharswan a resident of Rani Pohkri to the Pioneer.