The resident doctors across the Maharashtra state went on strike protesting against the dip in the number of post-graduate seats. Patients thronging the public hospitals suffered the most due to the strike. Seats were reduced because some of the courses recognized by the state-level Medical Council are not recognized by the national Medical Council of India. The courses were derecognized because of the inadequate teacher:patient ratio or poor infrastructure available in the medical colleges. The doctors called off the 4-day strike after the state government assured them that problems would be sorted out soon. The doctors apologized to patients inconvenienced by the strike.
Can the striking doctors turn away emergency cases such as the one reported widely, i.e., turning away a woman gone into labour. The woman gave birth to a baby in a taxi. Surgeries were postponed; dialysis had been stopped, serious cases such as a child suffering from acute diarrhea, was not admitted, there were not enough people for post-surgery care. There were many more of such incidents. Private clinics made money in the process.
Who should be blamed for this? The doctors who toil day in and day out in the hospitals without much rewards? Even the post-graduate courses they have taken up may not be recognized!
As usual, the government takes the resident doctors for granted and care less about their living conditions in the hospitals and not paid enough even to take care of themselves. The media, television and news papers are busy chasing the cricketers and film-stars, highlighting their incomes in crores of rupees.
The doctors are left in the lurch by everyone.
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