Ranchi: In the past 36 hours, at least 14 patients have died in Jharkhand’s Rajendra Institute of Medical Science (RIMS) after the nurses and junior doctors went on a strike to protest over an assault of on one of the hospital staff.
Jharkhand chief minister Raghubar Das on June 3 took cognizance of the RIMS incident and asked chief secretary Sudhir Tripathy and health minister Ramchandra Chandrabansi to hold talks with the nurses and junior doctors.
The trouble began when a patient Geeta Devi died after a nurse gave her an injection. Following her death, the nurse was thrashed by Devi’s attendants on June 1 night.
Next day, nurses and junior doctors of the hospital went on a strike and did not allow admission of patients in the hospital while those already admitted were not provided medicine and treatment, resulting in the death of 14 patients.
The chief minister said that everyone had the right to protest but chaos would not be tolerated in the institute. More than 2,000 OPD patients returned on June 2 and 3 without treatment while family members of many patients admitted in RIMS shifted them to other hospitals.
On June 3 afternoon Chandrabansi and Tripathy reached RIMS for dialogue, following which the strike was called off.
(India.com)