Long queues at Jharkhand emergency wards

ata-backed corporate hospitals Tata Main Hospital, Tinplate Hospital and Tata Motors Hospital, however, functioned as usual."I had come to MGM hospital with my son who has high fever and is vomiting. But the OPD was deserted and the emergency unit was so crowded that I had to wait for three hours for my son's turn," said Narayan Gope of Birsanagar, a contract worker.Like Gope's son, most patients thronging MGM in Sakchi on Wednesday were suffering from viral fever.Dr Nakul Choudhary, deputy superintendent of MGM hospital, said: "We are seeing a large number of viral fever cases. As OPD was shut, we deputed six doctors, double the usual number, at the emergency ward," he said. At state-run Sadar Hospital in Khasmahal, Nirmal Kumar Hansdah, a resident of Sundernagar, said he waited for a doctor for two hours at the emergency ward to get his wife treated for high fever and nausea. East Singhbhum civil surgeon Dr Maheshwar Prasad said the directive had been issued to all state-owned health units to depute doctors in the emergency wards such a manner so as to compensate the absence of doctors at OPDs. "I asked all state-run hospitals to rejig doctor deputations in a way so as to avoid inconveniencing patients as much as possible," said Dr Prasad.Contacted, the IMA Jamshedpur chapter claimed success of the strike. "The strike was essential to draw the government's attention to the anti-people and anti-doctor features of the National Medical Commission bill," said IMA Jamshedpur chapter secretary Dr Mrityunjay Kumar Singh. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Telegraphhttp://www.sfdj.com/UserProfile/tabid/61/userId/988088/Default.aspx