Date:08/05/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/05/08/stories/2008050859090300.htm

New Delhi

LNJP doctors go on strike

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: Over 500 resident doctors and medical interns at Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Narayan Hospital here gone on a flash strike on Wednesday evening after angry relatives of a patient who died in the hospital beat up on-duty doctors and nurses on Tuesday night.

“Despite earlier assurance by the hospital authorities that our demand for better working condition and security would be considered and fulfilled, no work has yet been done on the ground. Last night after a patient died in the ward, his relatives went on the rampage beating up junior doctors and on-duty nurses. We have filed an FIR with the police. The medical staff has been demanding that the Government provide us with basic medical equipment, adequate assistant medical staff and security without which problems like this will keep happening,” said LNJP Resident Doctors’ Association president Kuldeep Kumar.