Medical Services in Hyderabad mishandled

Doctors in hyderabad are on war path since 15 days. The doctors have gone on strike after patient's relatives supported by goons, anti social elements and Legislators from Majlis Ittehad ul Muslimeen party ( MIM) attacked doctors at some of the governmnet hospitals ( These are teaching hospitals also) when patients died. Obviously the attackers claimed that they died due to negligience of doctors. Senior doctors and Junior doctors ( House surgeons) went on strike parlysing the services. There was great human suffering where poor people were badly affected. more than 23 kids died due to non availablity of services. The Governmnet is caught between the appaesement tactics to wards MIM party and the doctors. Government does not want to antagonise Muslims by arresting the MLAs who were responsible for these attacks. The MIM party however denies the allegations and claims that their MLAs were not responsible for such attacks. The students want a non bailable arrest to be made mandatory against such attacks and Governmnet has come with an orinance. This act was greatly condemned by MIM. The junior doctors want the MLAs to be arrested and booked accordingly. The senior doctors however withdrew the strike after the act was issued. Juniors are however adamant. They even demaded gun licenses to protect themselves as Govt has failed utterly to protect them from the ruffians and goons. The attacks on the doctors at hospitals have become regular affair and this was due to lack lustre policy of the government. The Government hospitals lack cleanliness, medicines and facilities and infact are apologies for medical care. Yet the student doctors play great role in providing the services to scores of patients. The attacks have alienated them,. Parents of the doctors are highly agitated at the attitude of govt and are not in position to allow their children to work at these unsafe places where goondas have come to rule around. The entire thing is shameful to the civilized society. These acts should be condemned by all and doctors should be protected from the goons in the city and offenders should be punished irrespective of their political stabding and position. Pseudo secularism and appeasement policies will not work very long and yougsters have come to realise this.

Dr K Prabhakar Rao