With lean strength, All India Institute of Medical Sciences’ patient services will suffer
All the seven All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) resident doctors involved in the Yamuna Expressway were from the same batch in the Department of Emergency Medicine. With three of them dead and four still undergoing treatment, the patient care at the hospital is going to be affected.
The Emergency services at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, like any other major hospital, runs round the clock in shifts. There are three shifts from 8 am to 1:30 pm; 1:30 pm to 8 pm and the last one, the 12-hour ghost shift from 8 pm to 8 am.
The resident doctors, all from Batch ‘A’, had finished their afternoon shift on Saturday when they left to celebrate the birthday of Dr Harshit Wankhede, the batch head and the only senior resident in the group. All of them were supposed to return to the Capital on Sunday for their night shift.
“An entire batch is not available in the Emergency and this definitely will affect the department as the patients continue to arrive in the New Emergency Ward, the Medicine Emergency ward,” said a senior resident doctor.
There are four batches in every department with alphabetical naming that work in shifts. With one missing now, the other batches will stretch extra hours, said the doctor.
Amid this, the family members of the doctors arrived at the hospital to take away the bodies.
“He was like a saint, truly born to do this. Every time he would visit the village, Yashpreet used to see patients and give free medicines,” said Dr Yashpreet Singh’s father, one of the deceased from the accident.
According to the NCRB, 30 accidents are reported on the expressway every week.
December 25, 2017 Ukrainian woman, was killed and two others injured after their car, lost control and rammed into the divider on Yamuna Expressway.
November 8, 2017 One person was killed and 27 were injured in two separate pile-ups involving 34 vehicles on Yamuna Expressway.
November 3, 2017 One person was killed and 45 students were injured in a bus accident at Yamuna Expressway near Uttar Pradesh’s Agra. The bus carrying the students overturned due to a tyre burst.
September 27, 2017 Four people, including two minors, were killed and six others seriously injured after their car hit the divider when the driver tried to avoid colliding with a herd of Nilgai on Yamuna Expressway.
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