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Doctors' strike: JJ Hospital turns patients away

The Maharashtra Resident Doctors’ strike entered its second day, inconveniencing patients and their relatives.

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The Maharashtra Resident Doctors’ strike entered its second day, inconveniencing patients and their relatives.

As most doctors at Sir JJ Hospital were confused whether the strike was on or not, patients were treated after hours of delay. However, the hospital claimed that the entire hospital, including the emergency ward, was functional.

At 1pm on Saturday, MS Nago, 50, a resident of Jalgaon was wheeled from the general ward of the hospital to the ground floor for an MRI scan. 

“It’s 4pm and I am still waiting because there are no doctors,” he said. Nago is a farmer and met with a railway accident on August 30.  His left hand got injured and on September 1, he was brought to Mumbai and admitted to JJ hospital. “I have not even eaten anything for lunch,” he said.

Another patient Shantilal Rajput, 77, was asked to leave the hospital, claimed his son Anil Rajput, 40, who works in a private firm. Shantilal suffers from prostrate cancer and stays at Vasai.  He was admitted to JJ Hospital on September 7. 

“He also had a brain stroke that day.  This morning, the doctor called us and said he will be discharged from the hospital because there are no doctors to look after him due to the strike,” claims Anil. “We stay at Vasai and if something happens to him after we take him home, what will we do?  We will stay back somewhere in the corridors till they re-admit him,” he says.

The only silver lining to the strike’s ‘on or off’ status was that some doctors ended up reporting to work. However, Dr TP Lahane, Dean of JJ Hospital claimed that all was well at his hospital.  “All resident doctors resumed early morning,” he said.

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