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Mon, 05/09/2011 - 13:38
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JUNIOR DOCS GO ON STRIKE, EIGHT BABIES DEAD
By P. Vijian
NEW DELHI, May 9 (Bernama) -- At least, eight infants died in a
government-run children's hospital in Hyderabad, due to lack of proper medical care, following a strike by hundreds of junior doctors who demanded special protection for themselves.
The babies died between Saturday and Sunday at the Niloufer Hospital in Hyderabad, capital of the southern state of Andhra Pradesh.
"Hospital authorities did their best to pacify the situation. Being the only tertiary hospital dedicated to mother and child, death rate of infants is high at Niloufer Hospital," hospital superintendent C. Siddappa Gowrav told local media.
But doctors are not relenting and disputing that the deaths were not related to their strike. Instead, they claimed that at least 10 infants died in the hospital daily in relation to various medical reasons.
The striking medical practitioners pressured the government to provide security while on duty after several incidents of violent attacks by families of patients' on doctors while on duty.
Media reports from Hyderabad said about 400 undergraduate and post-graduates doctors, under the Telangana Junior Doctors Association, had skipped duties in the past 18 days.
Due to budget constraints, the government had withdrawn the special
protection force initially deployed to protect doctors at the hospital.
NEW DELHI, May 9 (Bernama) -- At least, eight infants died in a
government-run children's hospital in Hyderabad, due to lack of proper medical care, following a strike by hundreds of junior doctors who demanded special protection for themselves.
The babies died between Saturday and Sunday at the Niloufer Hospital in Hyderabad, capital of the southern state of Andhra Pradesh.
"Hospital authorities did their best to pacify the situation. Being the only tertiary hospital dedicated to mother and child, death rate of infants is high at Niloufer Hospital," hospital superintendent C. Siddappa Gowrav told local media.
But doctors are not relenting and disputing that the deaths were not related to their strike. Instead, they claimed that at least 10 infants died in the hospital daily in relation to various medical reasons.
The striking medical practitioners pressured the government to provide security while on duty after several incidents of violent attacks by families of patients' on doctors while on duty.
Media reports from Hyderabad said about 400 undergraduate and post-graduates doctors, under the Telangana Junior Doctors Association, had skipped duties in the past 18 days.
Due to budget constraints, the government had withdrawn the special
protection force initially deployed to protect doctors at the hospital.
