Jaipur: The health department issued directions to all the officials in the city on Saturday to ensure proper facilities in emergency and in OPDs at a time when the private hospitals boycotted work against alleged attack on a private hospital doctor.
Public health (director) Dr Ravi Prakash Mathur issued the directions for the benefits of the patients.
In the wake of the alleged attack on a doctor by attendants of a patient, private hospitals had announced boycotted work. “Any sort of violence against a doctor is not acceptable, we are protesting against the attack on a doctor of a private hospital,” said Dr Anurag Sharma, secretary, Indian Medical Association (Jaipur branch).
The doctors are demanding immediate arrest of the accused under non-bailable sections 3 and 4 of Medical Protection Act. The patient’s family has denied assault charges and accused the doctor concerned of negligence in treatment. TNN
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Public health (director) Dr Ravi Prakash Mathur issued the directions for the benefits of the patients.
In the wake of the alleged attack on a doctor by attendants of a patient, private hospitals had announced boycotted work. “Any sort of violence against a doctor is not acceptable, we are protesting against the attack on a doctor of a private hospital,” said Dr Anurag Sharma, secretary, Indian Medical Association (Jaipur branch).
The doctors are demanding immediate arrest of the accused under non-bailable sections 3 and 4 of Medical Protection Act. The patient’s family has denied assault charges and accused the doctor concerned of negligence in treatment. TNN
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A doctor from a private hospital in New Delhi has been ordered to pay Rs 5 lakh in compensation to a patient after removing her right ovary instead of a left ovarian cyst. The district consumer forum deemed the doctor negligent and directed her to make the payment within three months. If she fails to do so, an additional Rs 2 lakh will be added to the compensation. The doctor initially tried to cover up her mistake by claiming that the patient’s right ovary had already been removed in a previous surgery.
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The Dewas District Hospital in Indore experienced a seven-hour power disruption due to a fault in the transformer caused by garbage thrown by neighbors. Hundreds of patients were affected, with delays in treatment and reports. The hospital has 19 wards and sees around 200 to 250 patients daily. This is the second such fault in a month. In other news, the Comptroller and Auditor General criticized the government for establishing ward secretariats without involving elected representatives, and hospitals in Kolkata are struggling to admit patients due to high occupancy and an influx of dengue cases. The civil hospital in Ludhiana is facing a shortage of apheresis machines used to treat dengue patients.
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Over 60% of specialist and super-specialist positions in government-run hospitals in Maharashtra are vacant, leading to a dominance of expensive private hospitals. The Maharashtra Public Health Department reported that 61% of Class-1 specialist posts were vacant. The main reasons for the shortage of doctors in government hospitals are the higher pay scale in the private sector, political interference, fear of public backlash, and the added clerical work. To address this issue, experts recommend outsourcing services to private organizations or adopting a fee-based model to attract specialists.
