Raipur, July 21 (Inditop.com) Work at Chhattisgarh’s biggest government hospital ground to halt with emergency operations also being put off Tuesday, five days after 250 junior doctors went on an indefinite strike.
Demanding an increase in stipend, the doctors at the 700-bed Bhimrao Ambedkar Government Hospital had struck work on July 16. The hospital treats over 400 patients every day.
“The situation has worsened as emergency operations too have been deferred with striking doctors refusing to cooperate,” a health department official said.
Head of the Junior Doctors’ Association Pushpendra Naik told reporters: “We have met Health Minister Amar Agrawal and senior officials of the health department and briefed them about our problems but the government is reluctant to even listen.”
