Resident doctors strike cripples health service in Jodhpur

Health services in the city was today paralysed after resident doctors went on a flash strike to protest the Rajasthan government's sacking of two of their colleagues and a nurse for alleged negligence of duty.

All 130 resident doctors went on a strike this morning, crippling the functioning of three main hospitals of the city, official sources said.

The administration is taking necessary steps to deal with the situation, especially in the wake of rise in swine flu cases, they said.

Earlier two resident doctors — Ashok Meena and Rajendra Nagar — and nurse Kamal Bohra of the Umiad Hospital were suspended for negligence of duty after an infant got bitten by a rat in the post natal ward on November 27.

The infant had to be shifted to emergency ward after his condition worsened. However, hospital sources today said his condition is now stable.

"We have given the memorandum to the government demanding the withdrawal of the suspension, which is quite an injustice with us. Only we people have held responsible for this negligence and they have spared the seniors or unit heads," general secretary of the Resident Doctor's Association, Jodhpur Yogesh Gautam, said.

Meanwhile, district collector Naveen Mahajan the trio had also failed to give proper attention to the infant soon after the incident that led to the action against them.