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Friday, Aug 26, 2005

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Strike disrupts out-patient services in Government hospitals

Staff Reporter

Strike takes many patients by surprise

FORTY WINKS: The casualty wing of the General Hospital in the city on Thursday when Government doctors went on a strike to protest against alleged roughing up of a doctor. Photo: C. Ratheesh Kumar

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The out-patients (OP) sections in all Government hospitals remained closed on Thursday following the 24-hour strike by doctors in protest against the alleged roughing up of a doctor by Cherkkalam Abudullah, MLA, at the Manjeswaram Government Hospital in Kasargod.

However, casualty services functioned as usual and all emergency cases were attended to. Arrangements had also been made to post duty doctors and house surgeons in medical and surgical wards to attend to the inpatients in hospitals. In the General Hospital, crowds thronged hospitals right from morning, as most people knew about the doctors' strike only after they reached the hospital. While those who turned up with fever or problems that needed immediate medical attention were attended to at the casualty, several patients who had come from the suburbs for the specialty clinics had to go back disappointed.

In the taluk hospitals at Nedumangad, Chirayinkeezh and Neyyattinkara and the mini taluk hospitals at Parassala, Nemom, Attingal and Varkala also, only casualty services functioned as normal.

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