All government doctors in the district on mass leave: Gorakhpur mass death
The Uttar Pradesh tragedy seems to be getting worse, after 49 infants died within a month, the senior doctor was arrested by the police. Due to which all government doctors in the district went on mass leave Tuesday onwards.
Office-bearers of the medical associations in the state have decided to be on leave till September 7, but added that emergency and post-mortem services would not attended.
An FIR was lodged against the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) and Chief Medical Superintendent (CMS) and a senior child specialist of the Ram Manohar Lohia (RML) district hospital following Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s directive, on Monday.
A non-technical team has been probing the deaths of 30 infants in the neonatal critical care unit and 19 in the delivery room between July 20 and August 21, due to poor treatment, lack of attention and paucity of oxygen.
The PMS doctors in a memorandum sent to Principal Secretary (Health) Prashant Trivedi, have demanded that the FIRs against the three doctors be immediately withdrawn.
President of the district PMS Association Ashok Yadav and General Secretary Amit Singh have pointed out that only critically ill patients are admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit and doctors work hard to save their lives with “limited resources and manpower”.
-PTC News
