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Andhra Pradesh-Hyderabad
By Our Staff Reporter
who boycotted their duties yesterday demanding action against those involved in manhandling of a colleague, resumed work on Friday. The strike was called off after the police arrested Haneef who manhandled a post-graduate doctor, Nagender, when his daughter died due to respiratory ailment on Wednesday. The police brought Haneef to the hospital this morning and he apologised for his act. The agitating doctors said the girl was brought to the hospital in a serious condition. Despite best efforts by Dr. Nagender to revive to her, the girl died within 15 minutes, they said. The death provoked Haneef to allegedly manhandle Dr. Nagender. The junior doctors resumed duties but with a demand that the security at the hospital be streamlined and strengthened to prevent recurrence of such incidents. Suresh Kumar, general secretary, Niloufer Hospital PG Doctors' Association, charged authorities with failing to act in earlier instances too. "Such incidents took place earlier also and every time, the security persons were found failing in their duties. They do not act even when the staff come under physical attack,'' he said. He lamented that the doctors were unnecessarily targeted and manhandled by patients' attendants. "A majority of the cases that come here are in serious conditions. Despite that we never refuse a single case and attend to each of the ailing child,'' he said. The junior doctors wanted a foolproof security arrangement, which the Hospital Superintendent, N.C.K.Reddy, promised at the earliest. "If no initiatives are taken immediately, we might be forced to go on agitation again,'' they warned. Dr. Reddy said tenders for a new security system were already called for and a decision would be taken soon. "We plan to replace the present personnel with ex-servicemen. That should help in enforcing some discipline here,'' he said.
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