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House-surgeons continue stir at Alappuzha MCH

By Our Staff Reporter

ALAPPUZHA, JULY 9. The strike by house-surgeons and post-graduate medical students at the Alappuzha Medical College Hospital (MCH) demanding protection to their lives continued today also.

The strike began after a group of people following the death of a patient there yesterday morning attacked doctors and vandalised the hospital.

The Superintendent, Mohan P. Sam, said the miscreants attacked a doctor and destroyed telephones at the office.

Mr. Mohan said that talks were held with the joint action council of doctors and other employees at the hospital today and their demands to provide police protection to doctors and to enhance the security arrangements at the hospital were accepted.

The striking house-surgeons said the strike would continue till those who attacked the doctors were arrested.

The Superintendent said the issue would be discussed at a meeting convened at the collectorate here on July 9. The Alappuzha District Collector, K.M. Ramanandan, the District Superintendent of Police, Mahipal Yadav, the director of medical instruction, the Principal of the college, the Superintendent of the MCH and leaders of the action council would participate in the meeting.

Meanwhile, the death of the patient had brought to light the lack of facilities at the hospital. The present hospital building does not have enough space to accommodate the large number of patients who arrive at the hospital.

Though the State Government had promised to take steps to shift the hospital to the newly-constructed building on the Medical College campus at Vandanam, it had not become a reality.

Sources said that absence of doctors in many departments was leading to denial of treatment to patients. Various NGOs had raised the complaint that the trauma care facility at the hospital was not working properly.

They pointed out that a large number of victims of road accidents who arrived at the hospital for treatment could not be saved because of lack of facilities here.

Meanwhile, a joint council of various NGOs will start protest programmes here tomorrow to force the Health Department to take steps to shift the hospital to Vandanam and to upgrade facilities at the hospital.

The former chairman of State Human Rights Commission, S. Balaraman, will inaugurate the protest.

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