A day after a Post Graduate student was allegedly assaulted by attendants of a patient at Gandhi Hospital, the protest launched by junior doctors spilled on to roads on Wednesday. Apart from the patients in general wards, the junior doctors attend the patients in Intensive Care Unit (ICU). House Surgeons (MBBS Interns) and Post Graduate (PG) medical students come under the umbrella term ‘Junior Doctors’. The hospital which was already mired with allegations about lapses in providing treatment, plunged into another crisis after around 300 junior doctors boycotted duties. They also demanded immediate recruitment of specialist and broad-specialist doctors, nurses, para-medical staff, ward boys, patient care providers.

Source: The Hindu June 10, 2020 09:29 UTC