Rajhasthan, September 07: Over 49 people have lost their lives across Rajasthan after medical services was virtually paralysed in five major districts of the state. Around 1,200 resident doctors and medicos distributors are on indefinite strike against alleged lathicharge on medicos in Jodhpur.
The strike in six government medical colleges and their attached hospitals in Rajasthan has crippled health services across three major cities Jaipur, Jodhpur and Ajmer .According to recent reports as many as 30 people have succumbed to injuries or diseses in Jaipur and 19 in Bikaner in which 7 are infants after the resident doctors refused to work.
Although a section of doctors in Rajasthan have called off their agitation after authorities assured of a thorough probe into the incident, resident doctors continue to remain on strike.
Soon after the resident doctors’ association in Jodhpur went on strike, their counterparts in Jaipur, Kota and Ajmer joined the strike in a show of solidarity even as Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot called an emergency meeting of the state health machinery to settle the dispute. “The strike by the resident doctors is unfortunate, though a serious issue. We will try and resolve the issue at the earliest,” Gehlot said on Monday.
—Agencies